Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/src/m/plot/manualcb.m
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--- /issm/trunk-jpl/src/m/plot/manualcb.m	(revision 20515)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/src/m/plot/manualcb.m	(revision 20516)
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@
 	ytick  = (ztick-zmin)/(zmax-zmin);
 else
-	ztick = getfieldvalue(options,'tick',round(logspace(log(zmin)/log(10),log(zmax)/log(10),8)));
+	%old method
+	ztick = getfieldvalue(options,'tick',round( logspace(log10(zmin),log10(zmax),8) ));
 	ytick = linspace(0,1,numel(ztick));
+
+	%New method
+	test=logspace(-10,10,21);
+	pos=find(test>=zmin & test<=zmax);
+	ztick= test(pos);
+	ytick= (log(ztick) - log(zmin))/(log(zmax) - log(zmin));
 end
 
@@ -69,16 +76,23 @@
 hold on
 numcolors=size(cmap,1);
-if strcmpi(getfieldvalue(options,'orientation','vertical'),'vertical'),
-	image_rgb = ind2rgb(repmat((1:numcolors)',1,2),cmap);
-else
-	image_rgb = ind2rgb(repmat((1:numcolors)',1,2)',cmap);
-end
 if 1,
 	%disappears somtimes
-	imagesc([0 1],[0 1],repmat(image_rgb,[1 10 1]));
+	if strcmpi(getfieldvalue(options,'orientation','vertical'),'vertical'),
+		image_rgb = ind2rgb(repmat((1:numcolors)',1,10),cmap);
+	else
+		image_rgb = ind2rgb(repmat((1:numcolors),10,1),cmap);
+	end
+
+	imagesc([0 1],[0 1],image_rgb);
 else
 	%Creates triangles when exported as pdf
-	for i=1:numcolors,
-		patch([0,0,1,1],[(i-1)/numcolors,i/numcolors,i/numcolors,(i-1)/numcolors],'none','FaceColor',cmap(i,:),'Clipping','off','EdgeColor','none')
+	if strcmpi(getfieldvalue(options,'orientation','vertical'),'vertical'),
+		for i=1:numcolors,
+			patch([0,0,1,1],[(i-1)/numcolors,i/numcolors,i/numcolors,(i-1)/numcolors],0,'FaceColor',cmap(i,:),'Clipping','off','EdgeColor','none')
+		end
+	else
+		for i=1:numcolors,
+			patch([(i-1)/numcolors,i/numcolors,i/numcolors,(i-1)/numcolors],[0,0,1,1],0,'FaceColor',cmap(i,:),'Clipping','off','EdgeColor','none')
+		end
 	end
 end