Re: key text placement in SVG

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On 10/12/12 01:43, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 04:13:55 pm Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>>> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:42:22 pm Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>>> I'm comparing the output of gnuplot's svg and pngcairo
>>>> drivers, with a thought of making greater use of SVG. But
>>>> there seems to be a slight problem with the placement of key
>>>> text in the SVG output. Here's a little test script
>>>>
>>>> set term svg font "Sans,8" size 680,400
>>>> set output 'test.svg'
>>>> set key left top
>>>> plot sin(x) title "PRIME" w l, \
>>>>    cos(x) title "UNEMP" w l
>>>> set term pngcairo font "Sans,8" size 680,400
>>>> set output 'test.png'
>>>> replot
>>>>

The nice thing about SVG is the ability to zoom in to get more detail. 
Doing this on Allin's example , comparing Firefox to Opera on linux, 
the U of UNEMP is basically outside the plot with the second upright on 
the y-axis.

With Opera is it perfectly coincident this the y axis, on FF it is just 
inside the graph with a very fine amount of white separating it from the 
axis.

A more exacting test case could provide some useful metrics on the problem.

Peter.