Re: [Plplot-general] Questions on line thickness and multiple output files

[Hezekiah M. C. <hc...@at...>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM, R C <re...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I checked the user manual and the mailing list but was unable to find the answers to a couple of questions.
>  Is there an option to change the line thickness for plline and pljoin?

The function plwid should do what you want:

plwid(width);

where width is an integer.

See [1] below for a more detailed description of its use.

> Also, I have been able to get multiple figures using the pdf and postscript drivers, and I can post-process
> these files to save each figure to a separate file, but is there a way in PLPLOT to write each figure to a separate output file?

I usually use plend between plots and simply start the whole plotting
process over (plsdev ... plsfnam ... plinit ...) for each figure.
Another option is to use family files, described in [2].  I have not
used this method very much, but I think if you call:

plsfam(1, 0, 1);
plsfnam("figure-%n.ps");

before plinit then each time you start a new page a new file should be
created.  The first page would be written to "figure-0.ps", the second
to "figure-1.ps" and so on.

Hope this helps,
Hez

[1] - http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.0/plwid.html
[2] - http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.0/output-devices.html#familying

-- 
Hezekiah M. Carty
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Maryland
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science