Octave graphics bugs and thoughts

[Ben Abbott]

On May 6, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> 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

Dan,

If I understand your conclusion we need to ...

(1) Scale the paperposition by 2x
(2) Scale the fontsizes by 2x
(3) Scale the ticklength by 0.5x

Do I understand you correctly?

If so, I think that can be done without to much effort.

Ben