Re: Plot to PDF

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:

> Hi!
>
> When I plot to pdf in octave, the page format turns out wrong. The  
> resulting PDF
> looks like an A4 page, even though the actual plot is wider than its  
> height
> (standard format). I'm using octave 3.2 and the newest gnuplot  
> development
> snapshot. Plotting to PDF with gnuplot works fine using the pdfcairo  
> terminal.
>
> The command I have tried when plotting to pdf in octave is:
>
> fplot(blablabla...)
> print("plot.pdf")
>
> It works, apart from that page format issue. Anyone know how to do  
> it right? I'm
> using the octave3.2 from Debian Sid.
>
> Thanks
> Torquil Sørensen

It's not clear to me what you are seeing, or what you expect to see.  
So I'll explain what should happen and you can comment.

Both pdf an postscript output respect the papersize and paperposition  
properties.

The default are

papersize = [8.5, 11];
paperposition = [0.25, 2.5, 8.0, 6.0];

The resulting pdf/postscript output should (approximately) fill a 8x6  
in box centered on a page of 8.5x11 inches.

If this is what you see, then all is working correctly.

If you'd like to produce a pdf to import into a LaTeX document (or a  
figure for a similar purpose), then try

set (gcf, "papersize", [6.4, 4.8])
set (gcf, "paperposition", [0, 0, 6.4, 4.8])
plot (1:10)
xlabel ("xlabel")
ylabel ("ylabel")
title ("title")
plot test.pdf

Ben