Margins in the display

[Arindam Chakraborty]

hi,
        to force grads to use the graphics area exactly equal to the
current parea one needs to use the command
'set mproj scaled'

so
'set parea 0 11 0 8.5'
'set mproj scaled'
'd variable'

to get display without any buffer zone in landscape mode.

hope this helps,
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 ARINDAM CHAKRABORTY
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Mr Norman wrote:

> I'm having this strange issue with the grads display. I would like to have
> the graph fill up the entire screen with no margins or buffer zone in the
> image. I have tried the following commands to get the graph to fill up the
> screen:
>
> set parea 0 8.5 0 11
> set grads off
> set timelab off
> d tercile
> printim tercile.gif gif x800 y800
>
> What will happen is if I set the display to portrait, it will fill up the
> whole xwindow horizontally, but will have about a 75 pixel buffer zone on
> the top and bottom margins. If I set it to landscape, it will fill up
> vertically, but will have the same size buffer zone horizontally. This
> happens both in the X-window and in the saved image, whether run
> graphically or in batch mode. Any suggestions on how to get the graphic to
> fill up the whole screen? Thanks!
>
> -Matt Norman
>