Re: How to change the size of the paper when printing plots?

[Søren Hauberg]

tir, 06 07 2010 kl. 06:00 -0400, skrev Johan Kullstam:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 5 July 2010 07:49, Stanislav Pika <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Is there any possibility to adjust the size of the paper when printing()
> >> to an EPS file?
> >
> > Are you using LaTeX? Why not resize in LaTeX instead?
> 
> Also, how do I make the fonts in an eps file bigger?  When I produce the
> figure and then put it into a tex document, the fonts are miniscule and
> impossible to read.  When straightforward font size commands didn't
> work, I thought perhaps I could make a small sized eps and grow it in
> LaTeX.  But that didn't work out either.

There are many properties that can be changed prior to generating the
EPS file. For a list, you can type

  get (gcf ())

and

  get (gca ())

and see the different properties.

I think you should probably be fine doing something like

  set (gca (), "fontsize", 20);

before printing.

Søren