export button/comparing output of cairo terminals

[Karl R. <ra...@un...>]

Hi,

the dash patterns and pointsizes in the pdfcairo terminal are much
denser, respectively larger than those in wxt or pngcairo. Also pdfcairo
uses somewhat bigger font sizes (test script below). While there could
be (are, imo) good reason to have different defaults for print (pdf) and
on-screen (bitmap) display, this is a bit impractical with regard to the
new pdf export button in the wxt terminal.

(That set aside, if find the default sizes in pdfcairo somewhat mismatched?)

Should there perhaps be a "compatible" flag for terminals, that makes
sizes, margins etc. match a common standard?

And it´d be great if wxt (like pngcairo) accepted sizes in cm/inches, so
the paper size of an exported pdf can be easily controlled.

  Karl


$test << EOD
1 1
2 3
3 2
4 4
EOD

set xr [0:5];set yr [0:6]

set term wxt

plot $test w p ps 2, $test us 1:($2+1) w l lw 2 dt 2

set term pdfcairo
set out "test.pdf"
replot

set term pngcairo
set out "test.png"
replot
set out