Re: figures after print command never look good

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 21, 2012, at 1:25 PM, marasolc wrote:

> Thank you for the hints and advices.
> 
> My problem seems to be solved at the moment by the code which I posted
> earlier and as you say,the 3.6.x version seems to work better in this
> respect than 3.2.4. My graphics toolkit is gnuplot.
> 
> Basically the problem is that with my previous figure settings, which I
> considered factory default, the code
> 
> plot(rand(50,1))
> xlabel('time')
> ylabel('Intensity')
> legend('whatever')
> print('fig.eps','-deps')
> 
> produced quite reasonable figure in pop up window, but the fonts at .eps
> were ridiculously small. It was then necessary to set different fontsizes
> for pop up window and for print command (btw, the fontsize option of
> print('fig.eps','-deps','-F:32') had no effect at all), which also resulted
> in some errors in label positioning. This seems to be solved by adjusting
> the papersize and related figure properties. For the moment it works well,
> if I encounter any problems, I will post it.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Marek Scholz  

The small fonts for the eps output are a "feature" of gnuplot.  Octave 3.6.x 
should compensate and produce the intended result.

A work around is to switch to using the fltk toolkit.

Ben