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- From: rjl@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au (Russell Lang)
- Subject: Re: Postscript scaling prob., V3.0 patchlevel 0 vs. 1
- Message-ID: <rjl.721265916@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au>
- Keywords: scaling size
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:38:36 GMT
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- reinitz-john@cs.yale.edu (John Reinitz) writes:
-
- >First off, I would like to thank the developers of this way cool
- >program, particularly Russell Lang who wrote the postscript driver
- >which I have just used to make an ms. for publication :-)
-
- >I found some odd behavior wrt scaling in V 3.0 patchlevel 1
- >that *is* *not* found in patchlevel 0. In patchlevel 0, when
- >I do this:
-
- >set terminal postscript portrait monochrome "Helvetica-Bold" 24
- >set size 0.3,0.36
-
- >I get a nice little graph with properly shrunken letters
- >suitable for making a multipanel figure. But when I do it
- >in V3.0 patchlevel 1, I get a mess with the letters at normal
- >24 pt size.
-
- >Maybe this is fixed in V3,2
- It is patchlevel 0 that is buggy, not patchlevel 1 or 2.
- The set size command is not supposed to change the text size -
- if it does then set size 1,0.25 looks AWFUL!
- The documentation in patchlevel 1 and 2 is wrong - the set size
- command does not scale text.
-
- You should use:
- set terminal postscript portrait monochrome "Helvetica-Bold" 8.64
- set size 0.3,0.36
-
-
- >If not, and there is someone who has built up a head of steam wrt
- >this program maybe that individual could fix it. Alternatively, since
- >getting this to work is of some importance to me, maybe *I* could
- >fix it. *However*, although I write my own scientific code, I don't
- >have any experience coding patches for programs used by a lot of people,
- >and I will need some email advice.
- Don't touch it - it's fixed already.
-
- --
- Russell Lang Email: rjl@fawlty4.eng.monash.edu.au Phone: (03) 565 3460
- Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
- Monash University, Australia
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