set size, units in cm

[G.]

Dear all,

there is set terminal enhanced
{size <XX>{unit},<YY>{unit}}

The manual states
The default size for postscript output is 10 inches x 7 inches. The
default for eps output is 5 x 3.5 inches. The size option changes this
to whatever the user requests. By default the X and Y sizes are taken
to be in inches, but other units are possibly (currently only cm)

How do I activate cm as a unit, please? Will be pt one days possible?

Furthermore, is there any chance for realising the following, please:
You have font size 12pt in your gnuplot.eps Than you would like to
include your gnuplot.eps into latex, where you chose as
width=0.85\linewidth. This will certainly decrease the size of the
gnuplot.eps. But is there a chance that the fontsize in gnuplot.eps
will not shrink when having chosen before the same font size as in
your latex document, please? O even adjust the font size in
gnuplot.eps according to the current font size in your latex document?

Kind regards
G.

[Christoph Bersch]

Hi,

On 31.05.2011 01:11, G. wrote:
>
> How do I activate cm as a unit, please?

set terminal postscript size 5cm,5cm

>
> Furthermore, is there any chance for realising the following, please:
> You have font size 12pt in your gnuplot.eps Than you would like to
> include your gnuplot.eps into latex, where you chose as
> width=0.85\linewidth. This will certainly decrease the size of the
> gnuplot.eps. But is there a chance that the fontsize in gnuplot.eps
> will not shrink when having chosen before the same font size as in
> your latex document, please? O even adjust the font size in
> gnuplot.eps according to the current font size in your latex document?

The only way is to use one of the LaTeX-based terminals (epslatex, tikz,
pstricks).

Christoph

[G.]

Dear Christoph,
thank you, it worked!
Regards
Gudrun