Re: square behavior

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Monday 10 January 2005 11:48 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>  
>
>>>For the png driver there is the additional option of using
>>>
>>>	set term png crop
>>>      
>>>
>>YES!!!!!!!!  Everything fine trimmed right up to the first non-white 
>>pixels.  Perfect.  Every terminal should have such an option.
>>    
>>
>
>Feel free to contribute one for your favorite driver.
>

Well, this is what I'm wondering.  Is this feature as straightforward 
in, say, PostScript as it might be in PNG?  I haven't looked, but I 
imagine PNG , being pixel-based, can easily tell where it's limits are.  
But with PostScript, you have plot layout in terms of elements like 
fonts, lines, etc.  That might be a more difficult problem, and in fact 
it might be easier to do the cropping at a higher level of gnuplot's 
plot layout.  Heck, couldn't the word "crop" be worked into one of the 
plotting commands.

So, given what various people know about page layout, what does everyone 
think about the way of approaching this?  A higher level cropping of the 
image?  Or a more low-level crop for each terminal?

Dan