Yuan & Julien --
Fantastic!
There is "just one more" area -- the user wants to be able to control
the fonts for...well, everything. I think mostly we just need to
expose some controls to the user, since the "default font" does not
present itself "good enough".
Keep up the great work!!
tom
p.s. I bumped into one of our scientists at the airport when I was
going to the PolComm meeting. His take on "publication quality
graphics" was that none of the generator applications (IDL, Matlab,
IDV, etc) was good enough -- instead, he creates the pictures and then
uses gimp to put on the labels "just the way I want them". His
philosophy is that he might make a hundred pictures while doing his
research, but he needs to pick just 2 or 3 for publication, so he's
willing to take "the extra few minutes" to use a real graphics program
to produce just what he wants....which is not necessarily what "some
program" does. Interesting perspective, eh?
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Julien Chastang <chastang@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IDV Developers,
>
> We have been making improvements in the area of publication quality graphics
> that are summarized in the attached image.
>
> In particular, we now have the ability to capture multiple panel images at
> once obviating the need for 3rd party image processing tools. Also, we now
> have a lat/lon axis labeling capability which can be important for journal
> figures.
>
> -Julien & Yuan
>
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