On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
i have been trying to figure out how the different settings in
graphic-output works.
what are the meaning of these ( this is not mentioned in the docs?!? ) ?
text%
col%
page%
line%
theight%
pheight%
THese allow you to scale the image as you want it to be on the page. So
say your original graphic is A4 sized but you want it to be much smaller
in print then the following are useful
text% - this is percentage of text width
col% - column width
page% - page width
line% - line width
theight% - text height
pheight% - page height
So you can set either the width or height of the image. Using the
'maintain aspect ratio' box locks the figure so that if you halve the
width you also halve the height. It stops the figure getting distorted.
However you can set the height and width thus forcing the image to
distort.
In general i set the width of my figures so they look how i want (taking
in to account the aspect ratio) and use the text% option.
Just play about and see what suits.
Geoff
when to use which?
moreover, when to set height and width?
and when to use the "maintain aspect ratio" button?
martin
