Feature request: availability to change canvas size wile printing with the driver Postscript

[François Poulain]

2008/10/22 John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu>:
> I think a better fix would be to make the papersize property work.

Really I think so, but
* I don't know enough Octave's machinery to quickly submit a patch;
* The figure's Size properties in Matlab seem's very complicated (I
discovered it from a code I received);
* I don't use Matlab, but I think the Matlab Size attributes are
mainly usefull to control windows' size and position whereas I don't
know any way  to control size and positions of Gnuplot's wxt terminal
(neither x11 terminal).

The problem I fixed is the following:
* I print a 3D figure suplotted with 2 rows and 2 columns;
* I print another 3D figure subplotted with 1 rows and 2 columns;
* I want the aspect ratio of axes to be the same between the two figures.

If I would resize figure a posteriori, the fonts ratio will be
changed. So one way to change this is to change papersize while
printing. I don't know why, but in the current it's possible to change
size for the png and svg driver, but not with the postscript whereas
it work with gnuplot. That's what I propose to fix. Maybe this can be
done for others drivers.

François

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