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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:38:03 -0500
- From: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz)
- Message-ID: <9301061738.AA15375@wildcat.dartmouth.edu>
- Subject: Plot sizes and square graphs
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
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- There HAS to be a better solution. Some possiblities:
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- 1. Have "set size" set the actual graph size.
- 2. Set the default size for all outputs to be the same.
- 3. Have some way of inquiring the output size so it can
- be changed inside a script as appropriate.
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- Any other ideas? I like 1 or 3 myself.
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- When making gnuplot 2.0, we debated a lot about whether the set size
- command should use relative scaling factors (as it does now) or
- absolute size in inches. The problem is that some devices make more
- sense with scale factors (like most terminals) and some devices make
- more sense with absolute sizes in inches (like most paper-based
- devices, including latex, postscript, and all printers). At the time,
- we decided (not unanimously) that more people used terminals than
- printers, and to go with the scale factors.
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- I think we ought to support both forms. Of course, the 'set size'
- command cannot be changed now, or we'll break lots of scripts!
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- dave
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