Re: line width in ps files

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:51:33 +0200


Wolfgang Korsch wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have the problem that any linewidth but the standard one does
> not get accepted by postscript.
> I have hists and I change the linewidth by clicking on the hists
> and using the SetLineAttributes option. The line gets changed in my
> canvas, but when I save that as a ps file, the linewidths get
> reset.
> Any suggestions?

I cannot reproduce this problem.
Note that a linewidth=4 will draw a tick line on the screen and you may not notice
the difference with PostScript if you print on a high resolution printer.
Just to check, try to set teh linewidth=20 and let me know.
>
> Also: I would like to plot data points with errors and I use
> the option 'gr' and TGraphErrors. This way the displayed
> graph does scale the frame properly. Some of my error bars
> are displayed in a way that they exceed the frame.
> Is there an easy way to preset the scale of my x and y axis?
>

A problem in computing the right scale has been fixed in version 1.01.
You can set the plot scale by creating an empty 2-d histogram :
Root > h2 = new TH2F("h2","",2,xmin,ymin,2,xmax,ymax);
Root > h2->Draw();
Root > graph->Draw("lp"); //do not specify option "a"

Rene Brun