[Cdat-discussion] CDAT 5.0beta1 vcs plot file output border items truncated [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Lawson H. <L.H...@bo...>]

We are using CDAT 5.0beta1 (from about September 2008),
    and currently trying to upgrade to the latest SVN trunk,
    but having trouble with that (reported separately)

However, this report relates to a problem when generating
    hard-copy output (i.e., writing to a file) from "vcs";
    the simple script:

    #!/bm/gshare/cdat/bin/python
    import cdms2, vcs

    # Open the data file:
    filepath = '/flurry/home/lih/ts_A1_2000_2099.nc'
    cdmsfile = cdms2.open(filepath)
    data = cdmsfile('ts')

    # Initialize VCS:
    v = vcs.init()

    # Plot data using the default boxfill graphics method:
    v.plot(data[0], yrev=0)

    # Generate output files:
    v.postscript('tst-v5.ps')
    v.eps('tst-v5.eps', orientation='l')


produces the PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files,
    but the images provided in those files appear to be
    truncated.  In the plain PostScript file, the image
    is truncated at the right-hand side (approx. 5% to 10%);
    and the image in the Encapsulated PostScript file is
    truncated at the lower right edge ... the last two or
    three labels of the color scale Legend just go missing

I tried generating output for other file types ('png', 'svg',
    and 'gif') and the 'png' and 'svg' files were similarly
    truncated compared to the on-screen plot image of the data

Have there been many fixes and modifications to "vcs" in the
    latest version of the SVN trunk of CDAT 5.0beta1 ?

Best regards,

Lawson Hanson
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   Climate Change Group,
   Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research,
   Australian Bureau of Meteorology,
   GPO Box 1289, Melbourne, Victoria 3001 AUSTRALIA