Re: plot titles are off of the plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 24, 2009, at 4:19 PM, charles reid wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 17:46, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:40 PM, charles reid wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 06:52, Matthias Brennwald <address@hidden 
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:29 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi -
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using Octave 3.2.0 on a Mac.  When I create plots, the  
> > > > > titles are not
> > > > > entirely in the plot window (see attached "Picture 1.png").   
> > > > > I've tried
> > > > > re-adjusting the physical position of the titles, but it doesn't  
> > > > > fix the
> > > > > problem (the text is still cut off, or I have to make it overlap  
> > > > > with the
> > > > > plot itself).  I see this behavior using GnuPlot with either X11  
> > > > > or Aquaterm
> > > > > as my back-end.  The behavior is really annoying, since, to see  
> > > > > the actual
> > > > > plot titles, I have to save the plot to an external file, which  
> > > > > looks fine
> > > > > (see attached "Picture 2.png").  Does anybody have any idea what  
> > > > > is causing
> > > > > this?  Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
> > > > Hi Charles
> > > >
> > > > How did you create the PNG file? I believe your problem might be  
> > > > related to this:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.nabble.com/Axis-labels-in-EPS-figure-are-outside-bounding-box-td25941582.html#a25942083
> > > >
> > > > Matthias
> > >
> > > Yes, I'm generating these plots using the 'plot' command.  Is  
> > > there another graphics back-end that won't have this problem?
> > >
> > > If you make an adjustment to the "position" property, you'll be  
> > > able to compensate for this *feature* of the gnuplot backend. The  
> > > developers are currentl working on a new backend, but printing is  
> > > not yet supported.
> >
> > To compensate, try ...
> >
> >        set (gca, "position", [0.26   0.22  0.645   0.705])
> >
> > ... and then try your print command again.
> >
> > Ben
>
> Hi Ben -
>
> Thanks for the 'set' suggestion, but it doesn't work - it's moving  
> the plot itself, not the title.  I tried putting the command right  
> before and right after the title command, and putting it at the end  
> of all the commands related to the plot, but they all give the same  
> result - the plot, not the title, is shifted.
>
> Charles

Please try one more time ...

        close all
        figure (1)
        plot (1:10)
        xlabel ("xlabel")
        ylabel ("ylabel")
        title ("title")
        print -dpng test1.png
        p = get (gca, "position");
        p(4) = p(4) - p(2);
        set (gca, "position", p)
        print -dpng test2.png

... and then email each png to me so that I can compare with what I see.

Also, please let us know how you obtained your octave from Fink,  
MacPorts, or Sourceforge.

Thanks
Ben