Octave graphics bugs and thoughts

[Daniel J Sebald]

Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> On May 5, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> In any event, regarding the issue with the fontsize for eps-output,  the 
> gnuplot manual indicates that fontsize is scaled down by a factor  of 2. 
> We can compensate for that in print.m
> 
> Please comment on the attached changeset. I've compared it to ps  output 
> and the fontsizes look consistent to me.

It basically emphasizes what you found, that the fonts aren't positioned correctly and land on top of the axis line.  (Actually, the tick labels should be right/left aligned appropriately depending on their relation to the graph, so that problem really should be addressed in a different way.)  My solution was to write an exterior version of print() that will scale down the paper size if EPS then call the normal print().  Fonts come out about right, but the tick marks are too big.

But, placing conditional "if EPS" etc. scattered about isn't the desired way to go.

We'll have to think about this a bit.

Dan