Re: Again: canvas size

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

On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:56 am, Ethan Merritt wrote:
 And here are the results for 3.7
> 
> 	mif	Bounding box remains unchanged, plot scale is doubled
		3.7 same
> 	dumb	segfault
		3.7 no segfault I don't know what changed
> 	emf	Abort
		3.7 no emf driver 
> 	cgm	Abort
		3.7 same
> 	png	image is twice the size requested in "set term"
> 	pbm	image size is twice default
> 		(4.0 had no "set term pbm size ..." option)
		3.7 uses old png driver, png and pbm behave the same

> 	fig	"set term fig inches size 3 3"
> 		resulting plot extends from -2 to 4 inches on y
> 		and from 1 to 7 inches on x
		3.7 Xfig displays no plot if size is set to 2,2
		but shows the expected plot is size is set to 1,1
		I have no idea why, but version 4.0 was clearly an
		improvement

> 	post	%%BoundingBox: -454 50 554 1490
> 		(size 1,1 gives %%BoundingBox: 50 50 554 770)
		3.7 same

> 	eps	%%BoundingBox: 50 50 770 554
> 		(size 1,1 gives %%BoundingBox: 50 50 410 302)
		3.7 same

> 	epslatex	result depends on the TeX options in the
> 			surrounding document
		3.7 no epslatex driver
 
> size greater than 1 was already seriously broken, and it remains so.
  3.7 same :-)


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