Re: Plot size in postscript/epslatex/ps(la)tex terminals

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Harald Harders wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:
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>>My expectation for *.eps files is that they will by default be small enough
>>to use as an inset figure within an normal page.  So I would not like this
>>to change.
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>Ah, it seems I have not been clear enough. I do not want to change the
>size of the postscript terminal (neither in ps nor in eps mode). At the
>moment, the epslatex and ps(la)tex terminals use different sizes than the
>eps mode of the postscript terminal. The question is whether to use the
>eps size also for epslatex and ps(la)tex plots. Doing so would increase
>consistency, not doing so would preserve compatibility to old versions.
>Postscript and eps plots will stay unchanged.
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>What do you think?
>

My guess is that it would be fine to do that.  I think most commands for 
importing PS-related graphics into LaTeX allow scaling, i.e, one can 
specify something like the figure width being 0.5\textwidth, etc.  So my 
guess is that few people use the "natural" size of the figure.

There are some obvious differences between EPS and combined PS/LaTeX. 
 The latter is probably a bit trickier in getting the font to scale 
appropriately with the EPS portions, but for the most part it matches 
pretty well.

Dan