Re: bug in terminals affected by 'set size'

[Jonathan T. <jt...@ae...>]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Ethan Merritt wrote:
[[set size to a value > 1]]
> So don't do that.
>
> Neither the png/jpeg/gif terminal driver nor the pdf terminal
> driver can do anything useful with size>1.  You are basically
> telling it to draw outside of the legal drawing area.
> Other terminals may also belong on that list.
>
> Basically, size should never be > 1, although some terminal
> types may handle this case more gracefully than others.

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?

ciao,

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