Re: Scaling distance between xlabel/ylabel and axes

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:26 AM, Tobias Schmid wrote:

> Am 21.10.2010 18:09, schrieb Ben Abbott:
>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Tobias Schmid wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 21.10.2010 16:37, schrieb Ben Abbott:
>>>     
>>>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Katzenman wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> yes, that ist exactly what I'm looking for.
>>>>> I just need to get a proper scaling for one plot.
>>>>> 
>>>>> An fontsize and type is not important, because I'm gonig to replace it,
>>>>> using \psfrag in LaTex.
>>>>> So for me it is just important to have a scaling, where there is no
>>>>> overlapping of x/ylabel and x/yTicks.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And if it is possible to get a legende without overlapping labels, this
>>>>> would be even better.
>>>>> If that is not possible, I'll do it without using a legende and discribe 
>>>>> the
>>>>> curves in the caption of me figure in LaTeX.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for your help
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tobias
>>>>> 
>>>> I had considered adding psfrag support to Octave. However, as psfrag is 
>>>> rather dated and no longer maintained we decided not to add that support.
>>>> 
>>>> However, if you are interested in that functionality, I've attached the 
>>>> function. This function works with the current developers sources. I 
>>>> haven't tried it with the 3.2.x series, but I expect it will work.
>>>> 
>>>> Please let me know if it works well for you. Criticism is welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>>>       
>>> Hello Ben,
>>> 
>>> I tried to use your code, but I got the error messages added below.
>>> 
>>> psfrag(Abbildung ,"test" ,'fontsize', 18 ,'height','\\psfragheight' , 'wid
>>> th' , '\\psfragwidth')
>>> error: mat2cell: dimension can not be empty
>>> error: called from:
>>> error: /home/tobias/Diplomarbeit/Octave/psfrag.m at line 342, column 15
>>> error: /home/tobias/Diplomarbeit/Octave/psfrag.m at line 236, column 17
>>> 
>>> Did I forget to hand over the parameter dimension? In the help enty no 
>>> parameter called dimension in mentioned?
>>> 
>>> By the way, would this function solve my problem with the distances between 
>>> the labels and the entries of the legende , which are not scalable.
>>> 
>>> Tobias
>>>     
>> I'll take a look at this tomorrow. In the meantime, does you plot have 
>> ticklabels for each visible axes?
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>>   
> Yes, it does.
> And as I told you, the tick labels and labels of the axes are overlapping, 
> when enlarging the fontsize.
> You do not need to spend that much time on it. It's just one last plot for my 
> diploma thesis. And I didn't find a way to solve this problem on my own.
> 
> So, if you could explain to me, how to export the   debug.gp file and modify 
> it in gnuplot to me, that would be great.
> The psfrag thing already works fine with all my other plots.
> 
> I tried to modify the exported file, but if I'm honest, I couldn't even open 
> it in gnu plot.
> 
> So thanks for your help once again.
> 
> Tobias

Let me know what output format you prefer and I can modify these instructions.

Create your plot and output to a file.

        plot (1:10)
        xlabel ("xlabel")
        ylabel ("ylabel")
        drawnow ("pdf", "test.pdf", false, "debug.gp");
        exit

Test the plotstream from the command line (DOS, BASH, other or shell).

        gnuplot debug.gp

That will create (re-create) the file test.pdf.  To be sure everything is 
working, view it with ghostscript ...

        gs test.pdf

You may need to replace "gs" with "gs.exe"

Edit debug.gp and look for "set terminal…" and edit that line to indicate the 
fontname and fantsize. Notice you can also change the plot size.

        set terminal pdf enhanced size 6,4 font "Helvetica,12"

Run gnuplot again …

        gnuplot debug.gp

The result should look more proper.

        gs test.pdf

If you like, email me the "debug.gp" file and I can look to see if there are 
other problems. Theres been several changes to the plotstream Octave sends to 
gnuplot, so I may have forgotten something important.

Ben