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

[Jonathan T. <jt...@ae...>]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>>> set size 2,2
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Don't do that.

This leaves unanswered the question of what's the "right" way to
produce a postscript file whose natural size when printed/viewed is
larger than the default (in either x and/or y).  Until there's an
alternative mechanism -- and for a long time after that due to
backwards compatability and delays in new gnuplot versions propagating
out to the user community -- people are going to continue doing just
what Ethan objects to.

Indeed, this past weekend I wrote

   set term postscript enhanced eps solid color "Helvetica" 18
   set output 'geodesics.eps'
   set size 1.0, 1.5

   unset key

   ...

   set output

to produce a "right-sized" figure for a paper I'm writing.  Is there
an alternative mechanism that I've missed in _current_ gnuplot?

ciao,

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