[Plplot-general] On your axis label scaling problem

[Arjen M. <arj...@de...>]

Hello RM,

I found this message in my spam box:

We've been having a lot of trouble trying to create plots with readable 
axis numbers for "non-standard" plot aspect ratio's.  [I say 
non-standard, because plplot seems to be set up to support an aspect 
ratio of 4x3.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.]

We'd like to create plots that are resizable -- not infinitely resizable 
-- but resizable in a few fixed increments.  This means we create plots 
that are sometimes either more rectangular or more square than 4x3.

The problem is that the Axis numbering does not handle a square aspect 
ratio well at all.

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.

Please see the following example of an identical plot scaled to two 
different aspect ratios (heights).  Both plots are the same width, but 
the taller version creates enormous axis numbers that run into each other.

(AM: Not sure if this was the reason for it to be intercepted by the 
spam filter, but just in case the image is in: http: // imageshack.us  / 
a / img259 / 5944 / plotteraxisproblem.png)
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Is this a known issue, or are we perhaps not using the API correctly?

If known, are there plans to fix this in an upcoming release?

Or, are there any plans to include the ability to rotate the x-axis 
numbers 45 degrees (like gnuplot) to avoid issues like these?

Thanks for any help,
RM
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Could you show us the source code for these plots? Or a simplified
version exhibiting the phenomenon. This may help track down the issue.

Regards,

Arjen

 

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