From: Jonathan T. <jt...@ae...> - 2005-10-05 09:02:21
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I wrote | I'm not disagreeing with Ethan for bitmap terminals, but for postscript, | isn't 'set size 2,2' the only way to get a postscript file twice as large | as the default size? Ethan Merritt replied: > What exactly do you mean by "twice as large"? I thought I stated above, "twice as large as the default size". > The default postscript output fills a US Letter page. Not for eps. In particular, using G N U P L O T Version 4.0 patchlevel 0 last modified Thu Apr 15 14:44:22 CEST 2004 System: Linux 2.4.31 I just tried the commands set term postscript eps set output '/tmp/sin.ps' plot sin(x) set output and sent the resulting file to an (A4) laser printer. The resulting plot is 12 x 8.6 cm. > I can understand griping about not having an A4 option, > but are you really trying to print something to a > 15" x 22" piece of paper? Well, I have certainly printed things on A3 paper (= roughly US 11x17), and A3 laser printers are not uncommon. A0 printers (= poster-sized, 91.5 x 119cm) are rather less common, but I have used gnuplot figures in several such posters in the past, and plan to do so again in the future... > > Note that if you do say > set size 2,2 > set term post > It produces an output file containing the lines > %%BoundingBox: -454 50 554 1490 > %%Orientation: Landscape > > While this is legal PostScript, it is unlikely to print > correctly on a real output device since the x coordinate > go negative. > > In general I would say the better choice is to select eps > output, and then scale the resulting eps figure to whatever > size you like in the final document. But perhaps I am > misunderstanding the intended use. I often do this... but due to issues like fonts and linewidths, I'd also like to be able to arbitrarily set the natural size of the eps figure... including sometimes set it to a size larger than the gnuplot default. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg <jt...@ae...> Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, "Old Europe" http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam |