Edit mode
Using Editps to edit single .eps files
This option is mainly used to translate, re-size or rotate
.eps graphs, e.g. to enlarge
graphs in portrait orientation in order to print them in landscape
orientation.
First you read in any .eps file.
Then you can move the margins,
translate the graph, re-scale or rotate to any angle. However, note that,
if you scale the axes differentially and rotate,
then these operations do not commute. To understand this feature,
scale the x axis by 0.5 and the y axis by .75 then rotate by 45 degrees,
say. Now note the effect of changing the order of rotation and
scaling by changing the shearing status. Shearing a differentially
scaled graph can be used to create interesting three dimensional effects.
To add a new title or extra text under an edited file, use
Editps in stack mode (with 1 file). To add a large or multi-line title
or text to the top of a file, use Editps in Create mode to make the
desired text, then use Editps in Overlay mode to overlay the text
as required.
Note that, if you intend to add titles and text in this way, you
should suppress the title in the original plot when using program
Simplot.
Extra possibilities with SIMFIT files
Editps will edit any .eps file but, since SIMFIT files use a unique
formatting convention, you can also edit graphics titles and text, etc.
with SIMFIT .eps files. This is mostly used to correct a title for
spelling mistakes or to add special features like maths symbols or
degree centigrade symbols, etc.
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