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

[Sara K. <sar...@gm...>]

Thanks all.


I tried

set term gif size 9240,291
set output "public_html/test.gif"

and it worked out.
Once you click on it on the website, it shows so small and then you can
click on it, it zooms and you can scroll and go forward. It is all clear.

Sara

2010/4/13 Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>

> Sara Khalatbari wrote:
>
>  I tried it with excel and when the graph is 9240*291 pixels, it gets
>> readable.
>>
>
> You gotta be kidding.  There's no way a file 9000 pixels wide is
> "readable".  It won't fit on any kind of screen you're ever likely to get.
>  If you rescale it down far enough to fit, the letters will be squashed into
> unreadability.  If you zoom in, 80% or so of it will be invisible.  That's
> no way to establish readability.
>
>
>  set format x "%b %d %H:%M"
>>
>
> That's quite wide for a tick label, which risks that neighboring labels
> will run into another.  You'll want to make that narrower, e.g. print it in
> two-line format:
>
>        set format x "%b %d\n%H:%M"
>
> or rotate it:
>
>        set xtics rotate
>
>