Re: bug in terminals affected by 'set size'

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > 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

In my opinion, with canvas 8cm,5cm, a BoundingBox with a width of
8cm=227pt and height of 5cm=142pt has to be ment, e.g.

%%BoundingBox: 50 50 277 192

Thus, the measure has to be non-scalable.

Best regards
Harald

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