Re: Enlarge tickmarks font size?

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Bob Odom wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> 
>> I've discovered that the files are fine - the use of 'fontsize' does indeed 
>> increase
>> the tickmark fonts, both on screen and in the generated .eps file.  The 
>> problem seems
>> to be in the dvips command, which I'm using to convert a LaTeX-generated dvi 
>> file to
>> PostScript.  For some reason it's not picking up the enlarged fonts, and so 
>> when
>> included in a LaTeX document, the final PostScript file includes a figure 
>> with tiny
>> fonts.  There are ways of forcing dvips to download all fonts, but it's so 
>> long since
>> I've needed anything other than the default settings that I've forgotten how 
>> to do it!
>> By the way, I'm using Octave 3.2.2.
>> Thanks,
>> Alasdair
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:35 AM, bpabbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>      On Jan 13, 2011, at 09:04 AM, Alasdair McAndrew <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>      On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Ben
>>      Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Jan 13, 2011, at 4:45 AM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
>> > I'm preparing some plots for student notes, but when I print them
>> the ticklabels are too small.  But I can't seem to find how to
>> change their size!
>> >
>> > Any help would be most gratefully received.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Alasdair
>> Try ..
>>        set (gca, "fontsize", 14)
>> If that doesn't work, let us know what version of Octave you are
>> running.
>> Ben
>> 
>>      Thank you very much - that works fine on screen.  But when I print
>>      to a file, with
>> 
>>      print('-deps','plotfile.eps')
>> 
>>      the tick labels are as small as ever.  Why does the print command
>>      not pick up the fontsize, and how can I print to a file using larger
>>      fonts?
>> Changing the axes fontsize should change the fontsize of the eps file. 
>> However,
>> gnuplot renders the fontsize for eps output at one-half the size requested.
>> Please try to print using different fontsizes and let us know if fontsize
>> changes.
>> plot (1:10)
>> set (gca, "fontsize", 12)
>> print -depsc fontsize12.eps
>> set (gca, "fontsize", 36)
>> print -depsc fontsize36.eps
>> This should produce eps output with fontsizes 6 and 18.
>> Also please tell us which version of Octave your are running.
>> Ben

> 
> Can you use pdflatex instead? Have octave generate pdf files, and include 
> those. I
> am not exactly sure how pdflatex works, but I don't think it goes through
> dvips as an intermediate process.
> 
> Bob

Please respond below so that others may follow along (by reading from top to 
bottom).

I agree that pdflatex doesn't go through some intermediate process and modify 
the font names or sizes. However, I confident that latex (i.e. pslatex) doesn't 
either.

Ben