I've noticed two problems with the postscript backend with today's svn. Running the basemap examples and saving to an eps or ps file: 1) dotted lines (the meridians and parallels on the basemap) show up as solid 2) line and text colors are wrong - if a contour plot is created, any lines or text that are then plotted after that show up with the same color as the end of the colormap (blue for a red-->blue colormap). I'll try to build a concise example that shows this later on today. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : Jef...@no... 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg