Re: orient tall with fltk

[Ben Abbott]

On May 8, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Jose wrote:

> On 05/08/2012 02:51 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> However, if you like the convenience of "orient tall", the tightness of of 
>> gnuplot's output, and wish to use pdflatex, there is a way to do all of that.
>> 
>>      close all;
>>      graphics_toolkit gnuplot;
>>      plot (rand (3))
>>      set (gca,'activepositionproperty','outerposition')
>>      orient tall
>>      print -depsstandalone foo
>>      system ("epspdf foo-inc.eps");
>> 
>> Then type "pdflatex foo.tex" from the shell prompt, and you should get 
>> something like the attached foo.pdf. Does that do what you want?
> 
> Almost! :)
> 
> I could not find the epsstandalone option, but I found instead 
> epslatexstandalone. The result is what you showed in your attachment, and the 
> look is exactly what I want. But it produces a stand alone latex document, 
> and I cannot use it straight with \input in a master document. So I tried 
> instead the epslatex option instead, whose output I can include straight in 
> latex. The problem now is how to scale the figure from the latex master 
> document. Using \resizebox also resizes the fonts, so that is not an option.
> 
> Any further ideas? (Almost there, thanks!)
> 
> Jose

I think latex's \resizebox{} command scales the fontsize. I suggest you set the 
size in Octave using the axes paperosition property of the print commands 
-SXsize,Ysize option and then avoid latex's \resizebox{} command.

Ben