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Re: How to control the default plot size?

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• Subject: [mg14250] Re: How to control the default plot size?
• From: buttgereit at netcologne.de (Peter Buttgereit)
• Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:51:34 -0400
• Organization: Dipl.-Sportl. Peter Buttgereit
• References: <6vf3gi$d7r@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

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Hi Joe,
did you try to set  

Options[#,ImageSize->{450,450/GoldenRatio}]&/@{Graphics,ListPlot,Plot}

or something like that?
Cheers,
Peter

In article <6vf3gi$d7r at smc.vnet.net>, gwinn at ma.ultranet.com says...
> I am having an annoyance problem with Mathematica 3.0.1 for PowerPC
> under MacOS 8.1:
> 
> When recomputing any kind of plot, such as ListPlot[],
> ListDensityPlot[], etc, the plot size won't stay as set, instead often
> reverting to 2 by 3 inches or so on the screen, at random.  In some
> cases, the size shrunk to 0.5 by 0.5 inches.  There doesn't seem to be
> any pattern to when a plot will stay the size it was set to (by
> dragging the lower right corner), and when it will revert to the
> default small size. 
> 
> I assume that there is a Front End default one can set, and I have seen
> it mentioned in the Holy Tome, but I have been unable to actually find
> it.  Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Joe Gwinn
> 
>