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

[Henning T. <pl...@he...>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2005-10-07 20:33+0200 Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> >> [...]For
> >> typical results, see freeeos.sf.net/coulomb.pdf.
> >
> > Hm, you have labelled the axes with postscript characters (Times font?).
> > Something I couldn't manage, too, so far.
> >
> > I do not understand what on
> > http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.5.3/output-drivers.html#postscript-driver
> > is meant with "text: Use Postscript text (0|1); default 1", but I guess
> > it has something to do with the Times font issue.
>
> You don't have to worry about that.  With -dev ps and psc (and several other
> devices such as the gd-related ones) the new font system is on by default.
> You do have the option of turning it off (and going back to the old standard
> Hershey fonts) by using the -drvopt text=0 option.

Thanks for the detailed answer! Maybe the problem is due to my
installation. I remember I use the latest RPM package which is no longer
up to date.

I still could not find a command for setting the page size. I have plgspa
for getting the size of the page and I'm missing the corresponding plsspa.
Also I found that plschr only alters the size of the text labels but not
of the tick numbers. Very strange things ...