plotting and disipyl: scaling pdf output

[Michels]

Gary Pajer wrote:

> I'm looking at disipyl (and/or dislin) to do plotting.  I'm potentially
> impressed by the capabilities.
>
> I'll be importing graphics into pdfLaTeX.
>
> I can't figure out how to produce a pdf file with the scale and size that I
> want.
> How does one reduce the size of the physical page?  I'd like the page to be
> just a bit bigger than the plot.
> I've experimented with dislin.hwpage(),   using the keyword 'windowsize' in
> various places, ... all kinds of things.
>
> Some changes appear in a screen window plot, but don't appear in the pdf.
> Anyone have a simple file illustrating how to manipulate pdf plots?
>
> TIA,
> Gary

The DISLIN routine hwpage defines the physiacal page for PostScript and PDF
files. For example, the statements hwpage (2000, 2000) and page (2000, 2000)
define a 1:1 scaling from the DISLIN plot page to a physical PDF or PostScript
page of the size 20 cm x 20 cm (~ 7.87 inch x 7.87 inch).

Regards,

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