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bug #62241: Printing a plot to file triggers autoscaling of the axes for small vertical scaling values

Submitter:  Serni Ribo <serni>
Submitted:  Thu 31 Mar 2022 03:01:12 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Plotting Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Inaccurate Result
Status:  Wont Fix Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 5.2.0 Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Fri 01 Apr 2022 07:33:34 PM UTC, comment #2: 

As was pointed out in comment #1, very small values are always going to be a problem with plotting systems.  In particular, Octave uses OpenGL for rendering plots (unless you are using the gnuplot toolkit) and OpenGL uses single precision for all values such as coordinates.

The solution, also pointed out in comment #1, is simply to scale your data.  For example,


xs = x * 1e12;
plot (xs, y);
xlabel ("X (in picomoters)");


You could also set the ticklabels manually.


plot (1:4, 1:4, 'o-');
set (gca, "xtick", 1:4);
set (gca, "xticklabels", {"1e-10", "2e-10", "3e-10", "4e-10"})


On newer versions of Octave the interpreter for the ticklabels is "tex" so you can even have superscripts and subscripts.  The example above could be


set (gca, "xticklabels", {"1^{-10}", "2^{-10}", "3^{-10}", "4^{-10}"})


which shows rather nicely as

(file plot_exp_labels.png)



Rik <rik5>
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Thu 31 Mar 2022 11:45:32 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Can you change the x axis units to nanometers or picoseconds or something so you get better numerical values? Using 1e-10 as Axios tick intervals is asking for avoidable trouble with any plotting system, not just Octave.

Anonymous
Thu 31 Mar 2022 03:01:12 PM UTC, original submission:  

A plot with three different subplots has been created, and the axes of each subplot have been scaled using the axis() function. The axis scaling values are very small:
axis([-1e-10 4e-10 0 15000]).

When printing the figure to a file using:

print -dpng filename.png

results in autoscaling all three plots prior to converting the plot to png.


When using larger values in the axis function, such as:
axis([-1 4 0 15000), printing the plot to a files does not autoscale the plot and maintains the axis. In this case the plot is printed with the correct axes.


Serni Ribo <serni>

 

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