Re: plot orientation feature; plot filling page

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:43 AM, KeithG wrote:

> I am trying to do the same thing and am a bit confused. I have the latest
> windows package 3.2.3. I have updated a couple scripts based on some bug
> reports I have found. Specifically, I have grabbed a later plotyy.m from the
> 3.3.50 release and that fixes the plotyy bug where it would resize the plots
> if the axes were scaled. I have downloaded the latest orient.m that has the
> "orient tall" feature. So, at this stage, I am back where I was with the
> 3.2.0 version in that I can generate a PDF plotyy, but I would still like to
> expand the graph to fit the PDF page. As it is now, I get a landscape page
> orientation in the PDF and the vertical information fills the 8.5" height
> dimension of the page reasonably, but the 11" width dimension is not filled
> and the aspect ratio looks more like a portrait orientation of the graph
> placed on the landscape paper orientation. Is there a simple way to adjust
> this that I am not getting?
> 
> I create the graph using something similar to this:
> 
> plotyy(x,y1,x,y2);
> orient landscape
> print -landscape test_plot.pdf
> 
> The gnuplot looks fine but the pdf does not fill the page very well.
> 
> Keith

If you're up to downloading another script from 3.3.50, grab orient.m and try 
...

        close all
        figure(1)
        plotyy(x,y1,x,y2);
        orient tall
        orient landscape
        print test_plot.pdf

Otherwise, you can modify the figure's paperposition property so that the plot 
fills the page.

Ben