| EPS problem [message #25813] |
Sun, 15 July 2001 09:38  |
src
Messages: 9
Registered: January 2001
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hi,
I have a routine that Plots to an eps file, one of the keywords I can
give the
routine is a Plot_Size. The problem is this: when setting the plot
size to 5.0 by 5.0 (cm) the resulting eps file has the labels on the x
and y axis chopped off! They are completely missing. When setting
the plot size to 10.0 by 10.0 (cm) the x and y labels are displayed.
Surely the eps file should be more-or-less the same in both cases
since postscript is scalable? The only
problem with the 10.0 by 10.0 plot when I rescale (with width=5.0cm)
in LaTeX is that the text labels are too tiny to read, which wasn't
the case with the 5.0 by 5.0 plot.
Any idea ideas what's going wrong when the Plot_Size is set to 5.0 by
5.0?
thanks in advance,
S
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| Re: EPS problem [message #25870 is a reply to message #25813] |
Wed, 18 July 2001 06:46  |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Senior Member |
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Stuart wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I have a routine that Plots to an eps file, one of the keywords I can
> give the
> routine is a Plot_Size. The problem is this: when setting the plot
> size to 5.0 by 5.0 (cm) the resulting eps file has the labels on the x
> and y axis chopped off! They are completely missing. When setting
> the plot size to 10.0 by 10.0 (cm) the x and y labels are displayed.
> Surely the eps file should be more-or-less the same in both cases
> since postscript is scalable? The only
> problem with the 10.0 by 10.0 plot when I rescale (with width=5.0cm)
> in LaTeX is that the text labels are too tiny to read, which wasn't
> the case with the 5.0 by 5.0 plot.
>
> Any idea ideas what's going wrong when the Plot_Size is set to 5.0 by
> 5.0?
> thanks in advance,
>
> S
Dear Stuart,
we are using a plot envrionment to solve such problems.
There are many less or more difficulty things to know to make a
quadratic plot
in portrait or landscape.
The plot environment is described in my publication (german)
with lots of examples.
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
Some examples you can see at:
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl_ html/idl_work_idl_work.examples.category.htm#7
In our environment
plot.landscape=2 --> quadratic plot in portrait
plot.landscape=3 --> quadratic plot in landscape
plot.psflag=0 --> output in window on screen
plot.psflag=1 --> PS
plot.psflag=2 --> EPS
If you prefer your own plot routines then here is a bit of
the theory for EPS for a quadratic plot in portrait.
device,filename='idl',encapsulated=1,isolatin1=1,preview=0., $
yoffset=0. ,ysize=29.7 ,xoffset=0.,xsize=21.0,$
/color, BITS=8,/portrait
now in norm coordinates the length of 5cm for X and Y Axes must be
calculated.
then this data must be given by the position keyword to plot.
Behind the plot and the device,/close the bounding box is to big.
With a command like
epstool -b -c -ofile.eps good.eps
the bounding box will be set to the best size.
hope this helps
regards
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
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read something about linux / windows
http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html
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