Re: printing figures with development version

[Ivan Sutoris]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Friday, March 27, 2009, at 01:08PM, "Ivan Sutoris" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>Hi
>>
>>when printing figures to eps files with development version of Octave,
>>results differ from 3.0.3 - it seems as if the whole paper page was
>>exported, not just the figure itself, so that there are wider margins
>>around the figure. This is not so visible with default settings where
>>the figure fills most of the page, but if I try to decrease it's size
>>with figure's paperposition property, I get small figure somewhere on
>>the page and lots of empty space around it. I'm attaching output from
>>both versions for this simple figure:
>>
>>figure
>>plot(randn(50,1));
>>print strcat('figtest',version,'.eps') -depsc
>>
>>Is this difference expected or is it a bug (or is something messed up
>>on my end)?
>>
>>Regards
>>Ivan Sutoris
>>
>
> Hi Ivan,
>
> What you see is intended. You'll need to adjust the figure's paper 
> properties. Specifically, "papersize" and "paperpositon"
>
> If you'd like an 6.4in x 4.8in eps file
>
> figure (1)
> clf
> plot (randn (50, 1))
> set (gcf, "paperunits", "inches"); # the default is "inches"
> paper_size = [6.4, 4.8];
> set (gcf, "papersize", paper_size)
> set (gcf, "papertype", "<custom>")
> set (gcf, "paperposition", [0, 0, paper_size])
> print (gcf, strcat ("figtest", version, ".eps"), "-depsc")
>
> This will be much simpler once the all listeners for these properties are in 
> place.
>
> Ben
>

Thanks, this works well. However, there is another problem - when I
change paperunits property from inches to centimeters (being European,
I prefer the metric system :) in above script, I get a huge figure (I
mean really huge, about 16 by 12 inches).

Regards
Ivan Sutoris