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Re: Imported Plot =!= Exported Plot

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  • Subject: [mg43256] Re: Imported Plot =!= Exported Plot
  • From: "spiros" <bubba at yahoo.co.uk>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:08:30 -0400 (EDT)
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worked fine for me on win 2000 math 5.0

"AES/newspost" <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote in message
news:bi18i7$agk$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Following cells are my effort to Export a Plot, then Import it back in
> later on and display it (Mac iBook, OS 9.2, Mathematica 4.2):
>
>     testplot = Plot[x^2, {x, 0, 1}, Frame -> True,
>                             DisplayFunction -> Identity]
>
>     Show[testplot, DisplayFunction -> $DisplayFunction]
>
>     DeleteFile[testplotfile]
>
>     Export["testplotfile", testplot, "EPS"]
>
>     Clear[testplot]
>
>     restoredtestplot = Import["testplotfile", "EPS"]
>
>     Show[restoredtestplot]
>
> Results:
>
> 1)  Using default sizing, original test plot looks fine. Restored
>       plot has horizontal and vertical axis labels "scrunched up"
>      and overlapping the axis lines.  Looks terrible.  Also, not quite
>      the same size as the original plot.
>
> 2)  Add ImageSize->6*72 option in creating testplot.  Plot as
>      created is enlarged and looks fine.  Restored version is
>      NOT enlarged, and has axis labels even more badly scrunched
>      up on horizontal and vertical axis lines.
>
> 3)  Add ImageSize->6*72 option to both initial plot creation
>      and to final "Show[restoredplot]" command.  Restored plot
>      is now also enlarged, but not quite to same size as initial
>      plot, and axis labels are still scrunched up, more or less as
>      badly as before.
>
> This is NOT associated with using window magnifications other than 100%
> -- and obviously it's not good performance.
>
> Is this fixed -- I hope!! -- in 5.0?
>


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