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

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

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> On Sunday 13 November 2005 10:29 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > I don't think one escapes the PLENTY_OF_OPTIONS problem with
> > png/gif/jpeg because there too there is no information about image
> > position, pixel spacing, and so on.  I think the primary reason for a
> > person to put an image into gnuplot is to provide axes, annotation and
> > that sort of thing, requiring more details than just the image.
>
> I don't think we'll get very far on choosing a solution until we
> agree on what the problem is.  Why, indeed, would anyone want to
> read in a jpeg image into gnuplot?  I'd like to have a real application
> in mind before trying to guess the best way to support it.

Quite frequently, I want to "steal" data from scanned plots. There,
something like
    set label picture 'filename.jpg' back at ...
would really be convenient.

Other applications could be company logos to be included into the plot, as
for example the FEA code ABAQUS does in the self-produced plots.

Harald

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