Re: bug in terminals affected by 'set size'

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> One difficult thing is a0 posters: it is not possible to make big enough
> eps images with Gnuplot to be included into an a0 poster.  Of course,
> there is a workaround; one just plots everything in smaller scale in
> Gunplot (a4 vs a0), and scales the result back into a0.  However, the
> calculations with font sizes and linewidths are something that a user
> shouldn't need to do.

Using scalable fonts, it is feasible using "set termoptions font ..." <= 
it's only here you give the font scale. Now, we miss "set termoptions 
linewidth x" to scale in the same way.

> Origin (a windows GUI driven plotting program), because it seems not to
> have such limitation.

I would combine several eps plots together using Xfig, or LaTeX.

> set term post eps canvas 8cm, 5cm
> set term post canvas a0

Actually there are two possibilities what this "8cm" can mean:
   - scalable size
   - non-scalable size

I think there is some unity in the postscript definition which will keep the 
true dimension, whatever preceding "x y scale" command is. Something like
"8 25.4 mul truept" vs "8 25.4 mul pt". But I don't know the details.

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