Re: [Gnuplot-info] cbaxis in given format and margin

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 27.06.2012 10:18, cédric ody wrote:
> Hello and thank you for your answers/advices,
>
>> Well, 30 is rather enormously big for a little annotation.  At that
>> size, your whole plot is only about 30 x 30 characters big. Your cbtics
>> gobble up 20% of the width of the whole plot.
>
> Could you tell me how you made this calculation?

By opening the *.eps produced by your example in ghostview and looking 
at the size of the graph box and that of the characters.

> Can't we fix the size of the canvas and then the size of the plot
> inside? Maybe not, with the eps format?

That's exactly what 'set lmargin' etc. do --- except for splots, unless 
your version of gnuplot is up to date.