Re: Enlarge tickmarks font size?

[Bob Odom]

Can you use pdflatex instead? Have octave generate pdf files, and include 
those. I
am not exactly sure how pdflatex works, but I don't think it goes through
dvips as an intermediate process.

Bob

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:

> I've discovered that the files are fine - the use of 'fontsize' does indeed 
> increase
> the tickmark fonts, both on screen and in the generated .eps file.  The problem 
> seems
> to be in the dvips command, which I'm using to convert a LaTeX-generated dvi 
> file to
> PostScript.  For some reason it's not picking up the enlarged fonts, and so when
> included in a LaTeX document, the final PostScript file includes a figure with 
> tiny
> fonts.  There are ways of forcing dvips to download all fonts, but it's so long 
> since
> I've needed anything other than the default settings that I've forgotten how to 
> do it!
>
> By the way, I'm using Octave 3.2.2.
>
> Thanks,
> Alasdair
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:35 AM, bpabbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>       On Jan 13, 2011, at 09:04 AM, Alasdair McAndrew <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>       On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Ben
>       Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 4:45 AM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
>
> > I'm preparing some plots for student notes, but when I print them
> the ticklabels are too small.  But I can't seem to find how to
> change their size!
> >
> > Any help would be most gratefully received.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alasdair
>
> Try ..
>
>        set (gca, "fontsize", 14)
>
> If that doesn't work, let us know what version of Octave you are
> running.
>
> Ben
>
>       Thank you very much - that works fine on screen.  But when I print
>       to a file, with
>
>       print('-deps','plotfile.eps')
>
>       the tick labels are as small as ever.  Why does the print command
>       not pick up the fontsize, and how can I print to a file using larger
>       fonts?
>
>
> Changing the axes fontsize should change the fontsize of the eps file. However,
> gnuplot renders the fontsize for eps output at one-half the size requested.
>
> Please try to print using different fontsizes and let us know if fontsize
> changes.
>
> plot (1:10)
> set (gca, "fontsize", 12)
> print -depsc fontsize12.eps
> set (gca, "fontsize", 36)
> print -depsc fontsize36.eps
>
> This should produce eps output with fontsizes 6 and 18.
>
> Also please tell us which version of Octave your are running.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
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