Re: [Plplot-general] Consistent results with Postscript driver

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2005-10-07 17:36+0200 Henning Thielemann wrote:

>
> I like to generate several plots in Postscript format for inclusion in a
> LaTeX document. I have problems to produce predictable results, e.g. I
> like a constant character size, constant line width and an appropriate
> size of plots. E.g. in one case I have a single plot, in another case I
> have several plots in a stack (using plssub(1,n)). Of course more plots
> shall consume more space. But using the defaults PLplot tries to fits
> everything in a page with about 2:3 aspect ratio. In LaTeX I have to
> include them with different values for the "scale" option of
> \includegraphics, resulting in different line widths. If I even change the
> page aspect with plsdidev or plsdiplt then the characters are distorted.
> Another problem I have not solved so far: If several plots are stacked the
> vertical spaces between subplots are quite large.
> Eventually I could not find commands in the documentation, or even a
> suggested sequence of commands to be performed to get consistent results.
> How to achieve that?

I stack plots (vertically and horizontally with arbitrary spacing between
them including zero space) using the plvpor command.
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.5.3/plvpor.html .
Instead of fiddling with sub-pages, I use plvpor on a single page. For
typical results, see freeeos.sf.net/coulomb.pdf.

Also, I use the -portrait option for postscript plots to preserve character
aspect ratios for rotation from the default postscript landscape mode to
portrait mode.

Alan
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