Re: printing figures with development version

[Ivan Sutoris]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 02, 2009, at 02:30PM, "Ivan Sutoris" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>>Hi
>>
>>I've stumbled upon another problem with exporting figures in
>>development version. Sometimes, after setting 'papersize' and
>>'paperposition' property, axes labels are cut off from the figure:
>>
>>% open new figure
>>h = figure;
>>
>>% figure size in cm, convert to inches
>>figsize = [8 6];
>>figsize = figsize * 0.39370;
>>
>>% set paper size and figure position
>>set (h, 'papertype', '<custom>')
>>set (h, 'paperunits', 'inches');
>>set (h, 'papersize', figsize)
>>set (h, 'paperposition', [0, 0, figsize])
>>
>>% plot
>>plot(rand(50,1))
>>xlabel('t')
>>ylabel('X_t')
>>
>>% print to eps
>>print myfig.eps -depsc
>>
>>Here both axes labels are half-cut from final eps figure. It is
>>possible to adjust "position" property of axes object to have more
>>space at margins, however that's rather cumbersome (adjustment must be
>>done manually for each figure).
>>
>>I think (if I've understood documentation on Mathworks site correctly)
>>that in Matlab this is solved by computing "tightinset" read-only
>>property of axes, so that position + tightinset is area that includes
>>axes with all associated text objects (and so position can be adjusted
>>appropriately). Tightinset is available in Octave but returns zero
>>vector, so it's probably not fully implemented. Is there some other
>>way?
>>
>>Regards
>>Ivan Sutoris
>
> The problem in your example *may* be a problem with gnuplot, or it may not.
>
> You can check by setting the papersize/paperposition so as to respect the 
> 50pt border that gnuplot places around the figure.
>
> border = 50/72;
> % figure size in cm, convert to inches
> figsize = [8 6];
> figsize = figsize * 0.39370 + 2*border;;
> % set paper size and figure position
> set (h, 'papertype', '<custom>')
> set (h, 'paperunits', 'inches');
> set (h, 'papersize', figsize)
> set (h, 'paperposition', [border, border, figsize-2*border])
>
> Do you still see the clipping here? It won't surprise me if you do.
>
> Presently, Octave's sources make no effort to control the positioning of the 
> tick-labels, axes-labels, or title. I have a changeset that attempts to, but 
> it reveals new difficulties for Octave+Gnuplot. For the moment, I'm inclinded 
> to leave the job to Gnuplot and invest some more time considering a proper 
> solution. If someone is inclined to take this on, please jump in!
>
> Ben
>

Thanks for your reply

Indeed, setting the border does not help, labels are still cut.
Unfortunately, right now I don't have time (and probably neither
required skills) to look into this in more detail, so I'll stick to
adjusting axes position manually.

Regards
Ivan Sutoris