Re: Argh: Why are arrows clipped to the graph?

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

On Friday 11 November 2005 05:11 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> I don't know if it is even that complicated.  Certainly one can do that.
>  But I'm constantly making the mistake of creating a plot half off
> screen in ghostview, then I expand out to some other page size beside
> "encapsulated" and there is the rest of the plot.

And right there you have the reason why the PostScript driver is
different from all the others - it let's you draw "off the screen".
If you come to rely on that, you will eventually find that some
other driver will be extremely unhappy that you are trying to 
draw outside the pre-allocated space.

> > set size 2,2
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't do that.

>  For me, it would be much more interesting to enable gnuplot to
> read in common picture files as jpg or png.
>
> Noted.  (And list members should note.)  The capability to do so exists
> as part of the code.  But there is debate on whether to allow this.

Really?  You have code that reads in a jpeg file?


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742