Re: bug in terminals affected by 'set size'

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 10:03 am, Jonathan Thornburg 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?

What exactly do you mean by "twice as large"?
The default postscript output fills a US Letter page.
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?

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.



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