Re: Interactive terminals : behaviour on window resizing

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> Huh?  In my experience image viewers (ImageMagick, qiv) and PDF
> viewers (acroread)  *do* scale the image with the window size.

Same here.

> At least they do if you set that as the default behaviour, which I
> generally do.  The setting is usually called something like
> "fit to window".  Although now that you have me thinking of specific
> applications, it is true that the text-reading apps like Acroread
> or kpdf do scale the font as well.  That makes sense for pure text
> documents, but I don't see why it would make sense for graphics.

PDF and PostScript are designed to be scalable graphics.

I think that non-scaling the font isn't necessarily a bad thing.  When one is doing plot layout, you'd like fine control and not have gnuplot be choosing things in some way one doesn't like (unless perhaps there is some special font size which means to choose the most reasonable size font).

Anyway, what would be nice is some way to get back from the x11 window the "scale".  The idea would be that I could choose the font size in X11 and resize the window until the font and plot agree and then query the scale.  If I then choose that scale with other terminals, we'd hope to get a good match and avoid doing some trial and error.  But I bet it wouldn't be as productive as one would hope... it's sort of a WYSIWYG, which never did really come to fruition in the computer world, at least not linux.

Dan