How to generate proper DIN A4 sized plots with Gnuplot

I’ve had a major annoyance today: The plot generated by gnuplot looked good inside the wxt terminal but I simply couldn’t get a proper fullsized DIN A4 postscript exported. This is how I’ve done it now:

Inside gnuplot:

```bash
set size ratio 0.71 # this is the ratio of a DIN A4 page (21/29.7)
set terminal postscript enhanced landscape "Arial" 9 # you can change landscape to portrait and the fontname and -size
set output 'yourfilename.ps' # this is your export file
replot # or put your custom plot command here ```

In a shell:

```bash
ps2ps -sPAGESIZE=a4 yourfilename.ps new_dina4_file.ps ```

Now you can simply print new_dina4_file.ps from within KGhostView for example. Have fun!

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Comment by Stefan (not verified) (2011-01-14 15:34:00)

Thanks! This was very useful for me.

Published on January 14, 2011.

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bash
ghostscript
gnuplot
linux
postscript