Re: printing figures with development version

[Ivan Sutoris]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Much (not all) of the gnuplot backend is written assuming that property 
> lisenters are in place. In thie instance it is assumed that the value for the 
> papesize/position will be automatically changed when the paperunits are 
> changed.
>
> Thus, the backend temporarily sets the paperunits to "inches", assumes the 
> listener handles the conversion, and then sets the paperunits back when print 
> command is done. This would  work nicely, except there is not listener in 
> place :-(
>
> I have an m-file implementation that can handle this, but it should be done 
> at a lower level ... and the listener should be activated when the figure is 
> created/initialized, which I understand is done in the c++ sources as well. 
> As my c++ skills are embarassingly weak I'm not confident I know *where* to 
> do this, but am confident I don't know how :-(
>
> ... in any event, the short explanation is that you have to use inches at the 
> moment.
>
> Ben
>
> p.s. How are your c++ skills? If you are interested in fixing this, I can 
> provide you with the m-file that handles units conversion for all properties 
> as well as the handling other details related to the paper properties.
>

Ben, thanks for reply, I'll use inches for the time being.
Unfortunately, my knowledge of C++ (and gnuplot) is also quite
limited, so I'm afraid I won't be able to help with this...

Regards
Ivan Sutoris