Re: [Gnuplot-info] Scaling and cropping

[Dieter J. <die...@t-...>]

Hi Yang,
to my experience there is no way to achieve the "right" size of the plot (i. 
e. nothing but the size of the appropriate bounding box) in the postscript 
output.

I cannot tell about emf as I hardly use it. For pdf, the method of choice is 
either pdfcrop, or epstopdf what is simpler IMHO.

As the size of the fonts and the amount of text impacts the total size of your 
graph (given you have tics that reside outside) it is close to impossible to 
keep the size of the entire picture exactly identical (if you modify labels / 
tics). 

I have to admit that I did not test so far whether the frame of the graph is 
scaled and hence the outer bounds may vary or whether the total size of the 
graph including the tics and the ticmarcs is scaled when resizing.

Take care - hope this clarifies somehow



Dieter

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if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font
with constant spacing like courier! :-)
-----------------------------------------------------------Am Samstag, 5. 
April 2008 05:56:05 schrieb Yang Zhang:
> When I do "set size [<1 ratio]", for many terminals, there remains a
> space surrounding the figure because the canvas itself is not resized.
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