[Gnuplot-info] Re: Question on linestyles

[Dieter J. <die...@t-...>]

Dear listmembers,
I have to admit that I did not read the docs thoroughly enough; the problem=
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arises from the fact that I had been searching for a line attribute "dash"=
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among the line styles but should have searched among the terminal=20
capabilities. This is the way it is with gnuplot as many attributes are=20
restricted to the terminal's capability; however, it would be nice to have =
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little one-liner hint within "help set style line" or "help plot with ".

Converting gnuplot output from ps to pdf (set terminal postscript=20
enhanced ...) via ghostscript (either ps2pdf or better epstopdf) I found =
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that the default bounding box in XXX.ps out of gnuplot, XXX.ps being the=20
output causes somewhat too large distances between the figure and the=20
caption /and / or the preceeding text in TeX (matter of taste, though ...).=
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This can be shown by putting a \framebox around the included figure.

To circumvent this I suggest the following procedure which (might) be of=20
interest for other folks, too. I send the short script "dummy.plt" as an=20
attachement because my mailer wraps the lines wildly what might disturb the=
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functionality. This script implies the usage of epstopdf, it does not work=
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with ps2pdf. You need both sed and ghostscript installed.

The contents of the ps - file is filtered by sed, the BoundingBox size is=20
replaced by a different one that is achieved from gs -sDEVICE=3Dbbox.

The procedure has been tested in linux, should work in any Unix. Using=20
Windows, you might have to manually call ghostscript and manually edit the=
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ps-file before converting it into pdf.

Take care


Dieter Jurzitza

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if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font
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