Re: Axis labels in EPS figure are outside bounding box

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 17, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Matthias Brennwald wrote:

> Dear all
>
> The below code example produces an eps file containing a simple  
> figure. The resulting eps file is attached. The problem is that the  
> axis labels are cut off, i.e. they are partially outside the  
> bounding box of the figure. What am I doing wrong? What can I do to  
> circumvent this problem?
>
> (Octave 3.2.0 on Mac OS X 10.5, gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 5)
>
> ---------------
> plot (sin ([0:100]/10)); axis ([0 100 -1.1 1.1]);
> fs = 18;
> set (gca,'fontsize',fs);
> xlabel ('x label','fontsize',fs);
> ylabel ('y label','fontsize',fs);
> print ('testy.eps','-depsc','-S500,400');
> ---------------
>
> <testy.eps>

I'm able to run Octave 3.2.2 or the most recent developers sources on  
Mac OSX 10.6. I see no clipping.

Running your script produces the attached eps-file.

Upgrading your Octave to a more recent version should fix the problem  
for you. You can down load 3.2.3 at the link below.

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary

Ben