Re: [Gretl-users] fonts and colors in saved plot

Sven Schreiber schrieb: After some experimentation it seems that the only way to save the appearance I want in a file is to save to png. This is ok as a workaround but of course I would prefer a vector format, eps or pdf. As I found some quirks during the experimentation (win xp, build July 12), I append some detailed suggestions and/or questions about the plotting situation: (note that overall I think the plotting integration in gretl is great, otherwise I would not report these things, but simply wouldn't bother anymore) * in the session symbol window: plot icon names can be edited by clicking on the name; it would be nice if the context menu (right-click) also had a "rename" entry. And if one could use ESC to discard the name changes while editing. * how can one set the aspect ratio of the plots? it seems impossible now. * (as I mentioned before) the color blue in the gretl/gnuplot window becomes green when saved to pdf (and eps, too, where also the solid line becomes dashed). PNG works. * BTW, it would be nice to have a switch to toggle between color and B&W in general, not only for saving to certain formats * In the gnuplot plotting command window the first lines are commented out, but OTOH uncommenting doesn't seem to work. What are the "secret tricks" ;-) of steering gnuplot from gretl? * sometimes (not always, not sure exactly when) upon opening a plot through the icon in the session window the plot doesn't fit in the window, but the window is not resizable -- this is corrected when changing some graph properties such as the font size; actually the aspect ratio of the plot itself then seems to adjust to the window then, the embedding window itself is not adjusted * (as I said before) changing the font size works on screen, but not when saving to eps. same for line width. png works. I think that's enough for the moment :-) any comments and hints are welcome, sven