Re: [Octaviz-help] Specify view from the command line or script.

[Jonathan S. <jjs...@vc...>]

Peter A. Gustafson wrote:
> On Thursday 11 October 2007 13:01:45 you wrote:
>> Peter A. Gustafson wrote:
>>
>> This is an issue with the postscript/pdf converter (GL2PS).  I get the
>> same behavior (the zzzz label not showing) if I just print straight to
>> pdf without the -tex flag.  The suggestion I have at the moment is to
>> change the aspect ratio of the window like this:
>>
>> f.window.SetSize(500,400);
>>
> 
> Yes, I had just tried this and found it to work OK.  However I don't really 
> consider it to be a general solution.  No complaints though... it works and 
> I'm gladly using it.
> 
>> This solves the problem for your particular example.  It should also be
>> possible to use SetFocalPoint, SetDistance, etc., to adjust the
>> placement of the figure in the window, but I haven't yet figured out how
>> to then update the rendering without resetting all of these...  Let me
>> know if you have any success with those commands.
>>
>>> Another question, can fon't sizing be turned off.  I want identical font
>>> sizes managed by tex.
>> At the moment I can only suggest that you post-process your .tex file.
>> Perhaps something like:
>>
>> sed -i -e /fontsize/d test.tex
>>
> 
> It appears we think alike.  I've got a local vtp_printlatex file which does 
> basically that.  (actually grep -v fontsize)  Ideally this would all be 
> controlled within octaviz, but like I said I'm not complaining, it works.  
> I'm sure there are more important things to work on.
> 
> 

As you know, we are all volunteers here.  Sometimes the "best" solution 
gives way to the "easy" solution due to contributors' interest and time. 
  I'd love to see more people using and contributing to Octaviz.

Jonathan