There's something experimental in current CVS and snapshots. In a
gretl plot window, you can enlarge or shrink the plot by pressing
the "+" and "-" keys respectively (on the regular keyboard, not the
number pad at present). For this to work you need gnuplot with the
pngcairo driver (present in the Windows and Mac packages, and also
should be present on modern Linux).
Right now there are 4 fixed scales: 0.8, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 (with 1.0
the default).
If this works in a reasonably wide range of circumstances we can
think about enhancing it, and giving a choice of the default scale
for plots.
Allin