[Plplot-general] Axis label scaling problem

[RM <rc...@ve...>]

<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div>We've been having a lot of trouble trying to create plots with readable axis numbers for &quot;non-standard&quot; plot aspect ratio's. &nbsp;[I say non-standard, because plplot seems to be set up to support an aspect ratio of 4x3. &nbsp;Please correct me if I'm wrong.]</div><div><br /></div><div>We'd like to create plots that are resizable -- not infinitely resizable -- but resizable in a few fixed increments. &nbsp;This means we create plots that are sometimes either more rectangular or more square than 4x3.</div><div><br /></div><div>The problem is that the Axis numbering does not handle a square aspect ratio well at all.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Axis numbers appear to scale off the *vertical* size of the plot window -- which in the case of a square-ish plot, causes the numbers to appear unnaturally large and often run into one another.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please see the following example of an identical plot scaled to two different aspect ratios (heights). &nbsp;Both plots are the same width, but the taller version creates enormous axis numbers that run into each other. &nbsp;http://imageshack.us/a/img259/5944/plotteraxisproblem.png</div><div>____________</div><div><br /></div><div>Is this a known issue, or are we perhaps not using the API correctly?</div><div><br /></div><div>If known, are there plans to fix this in an upcoming release?</div><div><br /></div><div>Or, are there any plans to include the ability to rotate the x-axis numbers 45 degrees (like gnuplot) to avoid issues like these?</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for any help,</div><div>RM</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>