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Re: Graphics export quality-methods and defaults

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  • Subject: [mg68177] Re: Graphics export quality-methods and defaults
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:29:59 -0400 (EDT)
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On 7/26/06 at 2:26 AM, kevinbowman at mac.com (kevin_jazz) wrote:

>I'm trying to understand how Mathematica generates graphics within
>notebooks and how they are exported.  I'm running Mathematica 5.2 on
>OS 10.4.6.  I've generated a listplot lplot = ListPlot[....]

>The size of the initial graphics that are produced from this plot is
>small relative to the notebook. Furthermore, the axes labels are
>written over the axes themselves.  Overall the graphic looks
>"scrunched".  If I export this graphic using Export["file.eps",
>lplot], I get a faithful, albeit unattractive representation of the
>graphic.

>So, I suppose Mathematica has some default graphic size that is too
>small.  How do I increase it?

The setting you need to change is

Graphics Options->Image Bounding Box->Image Size

The values there determine the default size used by Mathematica.

Additionally, you can over ride this default at any time by including

ImageSize->{width, height} as one of the options when making the plot.
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