plotyy gnuplot error?

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Levente Torok wrote:

> On Thursday 11 June 2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Levente Torok wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I tried to scan for this bug on the mail list but I haven't  
> found a
> > > definitive response to this.
> > > So here is my recognition.
> > >
> > > On octave-3.0.5 and gnuplot version 4.2.5
> > > the following code
> > >
> > > ax = plotyy( ppv_cope.x, ppv_cope.y, ppv_cope.x, ppv_cope.n,  
> @plot,
> > > @semilogy );
> > > ylabel(ax(1),"left");
> > > ylabel(ax(2),"right");
> > > xlabel("bottom");
> > > title( "title");
> > > print("test.ps","-dps");
> > >
> > > The result test.ps labels 'left' and 'right' are missing.
> > > Certainly this is a bounding box problem.
> > > Maybe a gnuplot problem.
> > > Is it possible to circumvent this?
> > >
> > > Levente
> > >
> > > ps: does anybody know how to persuade gnuplot
> >
> > Using the default figure paper* properties, this works with the
> > developers sources and should also work for Octave 3.2.
>
> Dear Ben,
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
> What do you think which property is responsible for this printing  
> anomaly?
> "defaultfigurepapersize" ?
>
> From this example at nabble.com
> "
> image_size = [6.4, 4.8]; % in inches
>         border = 0; % For postscript use 50/72
>         set (0, "defaultfigurepapertype", "<custom>")
>         set (0, "defaultfigurepapersize", image_size + 2*border)
>         set (0, "defaultfigurepaperposition", [border, border,  
> image_size])
> "
> I suspect the border should be negative. How do you see?
> Thanks,
>
> Lev

I do not see the problem you mention. I assume you've changed one or  
more of the figure's paper properties.

If you can give a complete and simple example, I'll take a look.

Ben