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Re: Growing x11 plot window (was: Flickering movies)


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: Growing x11 plot window (was: Flickering movies)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:57:44 -0400

On Friday, June 26, 2009, at 11:13AM, "Rik" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In any event, if anyone is running gnuplot 4.2.5 or above, I'd
>appreciate it if they'd run this script and report back what happens.
>Just type ...
>>
>>     gnuplot --persist "debug.gp"
>>
>> ... or run gnuplot and type
>>
>>     load "debug.gp"
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>
>6/26/09
>
>Ben,
>
>For gnuplot 4.2.5 this does just as you expected and the plot window
>grows until it fills the screen.  I believe we already covered part of
>this topic earlier this month on the maintainer's list.  The last e-mail
>I sent on the subject was 6/1/09.  I'll just copy and paste the result
>from that message.
>
>--Rik
>
>--------------------- Start of Paste --------------------
>
>Attached are different debug.gp files for the
>breakage between 8223 and 8224.  The difference is the addition in 8224
>of the following preamble lines:
>
>> > set multiplot;
>> > set origin 0, 0
>> > set size 1, 1
>>   
>
>According to the log these changes were done to make the postscript
>bounding box accurate.
>changeset:   8224:62d90e049d4f
>user:        David Bateman <address@hidden>
>date:        Thu Oct 16 10:31:37 2008 +0100
>summary:     Always use multiplot with gnuplot to ensure correct
>postscript bounding box
>
>--------------------- End of Paste --------------------

Multiplot mode is also needed for subplots, plotyy, etc. Anything with more 
than one axes.

I suppose we could omit multiplot except for postscript or figures with 
multiple axes. Although that sounds messy, that may be the only solution 
available for gnuplot 4.2.5 and 4.3.0.

Ben


Ben



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