Hi,
I don't often use ISL scripts, but I do use writeImage from the jython shell in
McIDAS-V, I believe this would work in IDV as well. Since it is a challenge to
remember everything, I have saved some of my favorite annotations help
documentation so that I can copy, paste and adjust as needed:
fileName = "Something.jpg"
writeImage(fileName,"matte background=white top=100;matte background=white
bottom=150;\
colorbar width=500 height=20 anchor=UM place=UM,0,20 showlines=true
interval=5 showunit=true display=IASI;\
overlay text=IASI Dual Regression Surface Skin Temperature 16:55 UTC
place=UM,0,60 anchor=UM color=black fontsize=20 fontface=Arial;\
overlay text=2013-05-20 anchor=LM place=LM,0,-90 color=black fontsize=32
fontface=Arial;\
overlay text=GOES-13 Visible Albedo 16:55 UTC anchor=LM place=LM,0,-60
color=black fontsize=24 fontface=Arial;\
overlay text=RAP 850-500hPa Wind Shear Vectors 17:00 UTC place=LM,0,-30
anchor=LM color=black fontsize=24 fontface=Arial")
Joleen
On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:28 PM, the Fingerhuts wrote:
> All,
>
> To obtain better quality text I often use the drawing control or use an isl
> script.
>
> Bill
>
> P.S. Please make this easy for everyone to use.
>
> On 2/11/2014 10:01 AM, Don Murray wrote:
>> Hi Paul-
>>
>> On 2/10/14 3:41 PM, Paul Graham wrote:
>>> Is it possible to improve the font quality in IDV, or are there any plans
>>> afoot by the development team to do so?
>>
>> The font quality varies from platform to platform. I find that I get better
>> quality on Windows than I do with Mac. But both suffer from the effects you
>> see. Text using fonts gets turned into a series of triangles, filling the
>> outline of the letter edges. I find Century Gothic works pretty well, but
>> still not great. The Hershey fonts use lines only, but you see the lines
>> when the text gets big.
>>
>>> It appears IDV does not handle scalable fonts, so often text appears
>>> pixelated, jagged or with artefacts, especially when rescaled.
>>
>> A possible solution would be to use the Java 3D Text3D objects. That would
>> require some significant development to add it to VisAD first, and then
>> access that in the IDV. I'm not aware of anybody who is interested in doing
>> that, although it would go a ways towards Unidata's goal of "publication
>> quality graphics" for the IDV.
>>
>> Don
>
>
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