Message-ID: <49567964.5050002@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Date: 2008-12-27T18:52:20Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: overwrite title
In-Reply-To: <495675A7.7070805@witthoft.com>
Carl Witthoft wrote:
> I have played with overwriting text on charts by using 'white' text and
> various other tricks.
> As David W. said, there's usually a slight ghost left behind.
>
> My recommendation would be first and foremost to set up a miniscript to
> regenerate your plot, and change the title text to whatever you really
> want, rather than hacking the display via overwrites.
>
> Second, you might want to draw a borderless box )with fill color equal
> to your chart background) over the existing text, then write the new title.
>
Which is suboptimal given you want to produce some file, because you
will find all the elements (old title, box, etc.) in the reslting
postscript / PDF or whatever file (except bitmaps)...
Uwe Ligges
> Carl
>
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