Hi, Seems to me you get the same on the screen and on PS. The 50x50 canvas is not square either on screen. I guess because of the GUI menu on top, which prevent it to be so small along X. Olivier On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Maxim Nikulin wrote: > Dear Olivier, > > You wrote: > > > >>Pixels are good units for plots on a screen. What should I do if I wish > >>just 12 pt font size in the PostScript file? > > > > The text you'll see on screen (in pixel size) will be exactly the same in > > the PostScript file. But I cannot guarantee that if you fix the size to 12 > > pixels, that will correspond exactly, for instance, to a 12pt size in a > > Word document ... > > The problem is to get exact sizes on a PostScript plot. For example, > what should I do if I want a 5x5 cm picture containing a 12 pt label. > The script attached sets 5x5 cm paper size, 12 px font and draws a TText > in 50x50 px and 200x200 px canvases, prints their to .eps files. I get > plots having different height/width ratio (of course != 1). > > -- Org: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23 - Switzerland Mailbox: J25910 E-Mail: Olivier.Couet@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7676522 WWW: http://cern.ch/Olivier.Couet/ Fax: +41 22 7677155
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