On 2008-11-16 08:20-0800 R C wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to increase the plot line width for eps output? plwid works > for png but not for ps or psttf.
Each of the various file and library standards interpret width differently. Some take a float representing the width, some take an integer representing the width. All have various interpretations about how the width value that is specified translates into visual appearance. For example, the PostScript file standard has rather high width resolution, i.e., each change in integer value results in a rather small visual change in width. Currently, the PLplot approach is to interpret the width value specified by the user with plwid as a "raw" value to be directly interpreted (differently) by the various file and library standards. Thus, to solve your immediate problem try setting a substantially larger value (2x or 3x) of the width to see an obvious visual change for PostScript devices. At one point we did try scaling the width values so that each device interprets the PLplot width with similar visual results. However, the implementation was done in such a way that devices with coarse width resolution were interpreted the same as before while the devices with fine width resolution such as PostScript became unacceptably coarse so we abandoned that approach. There are some possible ways out of this mess, but they all imply serious disruptions for our users such as changing the plwid argument from an integer to a float with a value of 1.0 looking the same for all devices. We will have to think very clearly about this issue and ultimately we may just decide to minimize the disruption for our users and continue with the present "raw" width approach despite its obvious drawbacks. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
