[SAC-HELP] Multiple Questions

Jesse Hutchinson hutchij at uvic.ca
Tue Nov 19 16:27:28 PST 2013


Hello,

I am a fairly new user of SAC. I am using it on CentOS.

I have imported events from an Antelope database into SAC files for each
event (the events were actually extracted based on the presence of
converted phases, such as sP and pS waves). I have also adjusted the 0
time for the files to be at the same time as the first arrival, so that
the P phase is always at 0, and all of the other phases have been
adjusted correspondingly.

I have encountered a couple of difficulties however. The first problem
has manifested when using p1(plot1). The resultant plot from 'p1
absolute' does not show any data and the font on the axes is
ridiculously small. From what I can tell, the x-axis is far too large. I
have tried cutting the plots to be between -0.5 and 7 seconds along the
x-axis, but this doesn't seem to effect the p1 plot at all, however, it
does work properly for single waveform plots. When using 'p1 perplot #',
I am sometimes able to see the waveforms, and at other times not. The
problem is that they all show up on single waveform plots, so I am
rather perplexed as to what is going on.

My second problem is that I would like to be able to save .sgf or image
files when using p1 perplot, but I am unsure how to do this. When using
saveimg, for example, only the last plot is saved, not all of them. Does
anyone know how to do this, or is it an impossible task?

For my final problem, I would like to know if the sss command,
plotstack, can be plotted so that file names are hidden. Because I have
over a dozen waveforms on a single plot that are taken from files with
fairly long names, the names overly a large part of the plot and make it
nearly impossible to read. The plus side, is that I don't have the same
problem with visualization of all of the waveforms like I have with p1.
>From what I can tell a lot of the plot editing functions do not seem to
work correctly with plotstack, so any advice would be appreciated here
as well.

I appreciate any and all help.

-Sincerely Jesse Hutchinson




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