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[Gnuplot-info] Canvas / plot size confusion

[mikeincousa <mik...@gm...>]

It all sounds so simple and easy, so I must be missing something somewhere.

What I want to do is place a full scale 8 x 10 inch plot on tabloid sized
paper.

1
gnuplot> reset
gnuplot> unset autoscale
gnuplot> set terminal pdfcairo size 17in,11in #landscape
Terminal type set to 'pdfcairo'
Options are ' transparent enhanced fontscale 0.5 size 17.00in, 11.00in '
gnuplot> set output "test.pdf"
gnuplot> set size 8in,10in
                   ^
         unexpected or unrecognized token

gnuplot> plot x**2
gnuplot> unset output

2.
set size ratio 8in,10in
#returns a 10 x 10 square

3.
set size nosquare 8in,10in
                   ^
         unexpected or unrecognized token

4. and on and on....




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Re: [Gnuplot-info] Canvas / plot size confusion

[theozh <th...@gm...>]

Make sure you're using the newest gnuplot version.
If you read "help size" carefully you will see that size of the plot is
in relative units to the size of the canvas.
This apparently was different in older gnuplot versions and/or terminals.

reset
set terminal pdfcairo size 17in,11in
set output "test.pdf"
# calculate the ratio of 8in to 17in and 10in to 11in
# need to add . to force floating point division
set size 8/17.,10/11.
plot x**2
unset output