Re: plot orientation feature; plot filling page

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:37 AM, octaveUser wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to do something simple, print a file to a certain paper size and
>> have the plot fill the whole page. In matlab this is done in the following
>> way: >orient tall, will fill a portrait page, >orient ladscape will flip the
>> plot 90degrees and fill the page.  Octave prints with the plot only filling
>> a box in the center of the page with large margins at the top and bottom.
>> The plotting to pdf finally works great, it just seems like it would be
>> really usefull to have the plot fill the page. I understand I have to
>> interact with gnuplot to get this done. This is the number one feature
>> request I have, a simple way to make a plot fill a page, and rotate the plot
>> and have it fit the page. Was there an easy way to do this I missed. Thanks,
>> octave is wonderful.   
> 
> Currently Octave's orient() function does not recognize the "tall" option, 
> and the "landscape", "portrait" options do not flip the "papersize" (1x2) 
> vector. So there are both a missing feature and a bug.
> 
> To do what you want,
> 
> # equivalent to "orient tall"
> papersize = get (gcf, "papersize"); # presently the paper units must be inches
> border = 0.25;
> set (gcf, "paperposition", [border, border, (papersize - 2*border)])
> 
> # To change orientation
> orientation = get (gcf, "paperorientation");
> papersize = get (gcf, "papersize");
> paperposition = get (gcf, "paperposition");
> set (gcf, "paperposition", paperposition([2, 1, 4, 3]);
> set (gcf, "papersize", papersize ([2, 1]);
> set (gcf, "paperorientation", setdiff ({"landscape", "portrait"}, 
> orientation);
> 
> I'll prepare a changeset today.
> 
> Ben

Moving to the maintainers list.

I've pushed the attached changeset.

Jaroslav, this should also go into 3.2.x.

Ben

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