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Hi,

So with "conference season" approaching, I find myself generating lots of figures lately. Just a quick question. When I use sddsplot, often the vertical axis labels are much smaller than the horizontal. Is there a way to make them bigger (see for example, the attached image)? Usually I end up having to manually add a text box in PPT and create my own labels to overlay.

Thanks,
chris

Chris,

The root of the problem here is that sddsplot tries to make all the characters as large as possible, for readability. This ends up making some characters larger/smaller than others. There's no automatic solution at this time.

However, you can use the following options to fine-tune things:
* Use the -pspace otion to make more space where you need it. The default "plot space" is 0.15,0.85,0.225,.925. To make bigger y labels, add space at the left side, E.g., try -pspace=0.2,0.9,0,0
* The -xlabel, -ylabel, -topline, and -title options have a "scale" qualifier to scale the font size. Default is 1.
* The -ticks option has several useful qualifiers: xScaleChar and yScaleChar can be used to increase or decrease the size of the characters; default value is 1. xSize and ySize can be used to set the of the ticks; default value is 0.02 (fraction of the plot size).

Another thing that helps for publication and presentation is making the lines thicker. The attached script is one that we use: it makes both png (for presentations) and eps files (for latex docs), as well as an on-screen plot.

Hope this helps.

--Michael

Awesome! Yeah, the line thickness is also a problem when you make figures small enough to fit in a column for a standard conference paper. Thank you.