Re: [Gnuplot-info] How to extend the X axis longer so that the output file would actually look bigger and longer

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

if the terminal you are using is supporting the 'size' option:

set terminal ... size x,y

have a look the documentation of your terminal.


Sara Khalatbari wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I got gnuplot last night and have been working with it since this
> afternoon.
>  I enjoyed it a lot.
> 
> But I still need to figure out:
> 
> How to make the x axis look longer in the plot or more importantly in the
> out put file. I am plotting the data from a long range of dates and if it
> keeps putting them in a small standard size plot nothing could be
> understood
> from the plot.
> 
> I tried it with excel and when the graph is 9240*291 pixels, it gets
> readable. But now the gnuplot graph is 640* 480 and I do not know how to
> set
> the x axis to be longer.
> 
> Right now my x axis looks like:
> set xdata time
> set timefmt "%b %d %H:%M\t"
> set format x "%b %d %H:%M"
> set xlabel "Date & Time"
> set xrange [*:*]
> 
> 
> what is the command to make it longer?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Sara
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