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In mewsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
volker@cse.unsw.edu.au (Volker Henninger) writes:
>
> I still have problems generating nearly perfect postscript output. I'm
> using the postscript enhanced terminal. Inorder to get pretty exponetials
> I write:
>
> set ytics ("10^{/ -20}" 1e-20, "10^{/ -19}" 1e-19, "10^{/ -18}")
>
> The ps output looks really nice except that the plot area is effected
> by the length of the string (even if the length of the xtics string
> in the ps-output isn't long). If I use something like
>
> set ytics ("This is a very long ytic" 1e-20, ......)
>
> the plot area has nearly disappeared. Wouldn't it be better to define
> something like
>
> set plotsize 3in,3in
>
> to fix the plot area once and let the user be responsible that the labels
> appear at the right place? I would prefer that to make sure all plots in
> my thesis have the same plot size.
> If there are real problems implementing this I think I will have to change
> the Postscript code, but I try to avoid this.
> Thanks for any responses!
>

If you are using gnuplot 3.6, you can use "set {b|t|l|r}margin" to
explicitly set the margin sizes.  I think this overrides the defaults.

Dick Crawford, aka rccrawford@lanl.gov