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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
- Subject: Re: GNUPLOT on HP IIIp
- Message-ID: <6796@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:36:11 GMT
- References: <199211170138.AA17879@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <199211170138.AA17879@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
- jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk writes:
-
- > .... One of my first questions is that I noticed that the
- >function PCL_PORT_init in term/hpgl.trm sets the paper size to
- >"Letter". I am in Europe where the sane default is A4.
-
- The sane default is A4 everywhere. Thats what ISO standards are for,
- and that is why national standards bodies such as ANSi and BSI
- contribute to and adopt ISO standards. Having the default as a local
- papersize used in a single country is bizarre on a piece of software
- designed for international use.
-
- Of course, if there were some sensible way to set the paper size this
- would not be a problem. Set size uses a scaling factor rather than an
- absolute size, and the manual has a caveat not to increase the size.
-
- It would be preferable to have commands like
-
- set size A5
- set size 8 inch 11 inch
- set size x mm y mm
-
- and so on.
-
- You could try
-
- set size 1.033 1.063
-
- which will scale from US letter size to standard A4. This might not
- work if the PCL asks for US letter paper (and fails) as part of the
- initialisation.
-
-
-
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- Chris Lilley
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