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does anyone understand PointSize?


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  • Subject: [mg11568] does anyone understand PointSize?
  • From: henrik@rice.edu (Henrik Weimer)
  • Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:42:53 -0500
  • Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas


Hi!

I have run into problems using PointSize and AbsolutePointSize on
figures when I save them as EPS files and then use them inside LaTeX.

For example I use the figure:

P0={{0, 1}, {2, 205/56}, {4, 33/14}, {6, 275/56}, {8, 2}};
C0={{0,1},{2,3},{4,3},{6,4},{8,2}};

Show[Graphics[{PointSize[0.03],Map[Point,P0]}],
     Graphics[Line[P0]],
    
Graphics[{AbsoluteDashing[{3,5}],Spline[C0,Cubic,SplineDots->False]}],
     Axes->False]

Now I copy the figure in Mathematica (Meta-C) and save it as an EPS 
file (paste to vi). Then I use psfig to include the figure into a 
LaTeX document and make the whole thing into a PS file using dvips. 
Now comes the problem:

The size of the actual points in a printout of the document depends on 
the resolution of the printer. On a 600DPI printer the points turn out 
way larger than on a 300DPI printer.

This happens independent of whether I used PointSize or
AbsolutePointSize  in the piece of code above (which is a clear
contradiction to the  statements in section 2.9.3 of the Mathematica
book).

This seems like a problem many people should have come across... Any
help  out there?????


Thanks alot,


    Henrik Weimer





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