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Suggestions/Questions :: RE: Contour line label font

Author: tom1463
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:31 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 2

Thanks at lot!

I tried the other options in the Fonts dialog box, but missed trying the (non-obvious) Legend font.
tom

Suggestions/Questions :: RE: Contour line label font

Author: jsc
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:05 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 2

From the menu >

Text > Fonts > click "Legend" radio button > click Edit button and change your font size.

So it seems that legend text size and contour label size are tied together.

Hope that helps.

Jon

Suggestions/Questions :: Contour line label font

Author: tom1463
Subject: Contour line label font
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:21 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 2

How do I change the font of the number in the contour line label? It's a little small for seeing easily when I paste it into another document. I'm using V2.1.1.5.
Thanks, tom

Suggestions/Questions :: RE: general function for fitting?

Author: DPlotAdmin
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:26 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

Thanks for your comments. I've fooled around in the past with a generic "enter whatever equation form you want" with the "More Curve Fits" plugin. It works out reasonably well if you are able to supply initial values for the coefficients that are not too far off of the final solution. Otherwise it tends to blow up with overflow errors. (It blows up gracefully, but it still blows up.) I need to take another look at this sometime soon, thanks for the reminder.

PS: Welcome to the Evil Empire
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Suggestions/Questions :: general function for fitting?

Author: datryk
Subject: general function for fitting?
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:32 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

I am a brand-new user (today) and am very pleasantly surprised by the ease of use, power and low cost of this software. I have been using ProFit on a Mac, and have had to convert to Windows at my new place of work. I was dreading the thought of buying the software which shall not be named, so I was intrigued when your program popped up on a search. The seamlessness with Excel is, well, excellent. I was thinking about suggesting a general function capability for fitting (as in ProFit), but this can probably be done easily enough just with Excel.

Suggestions/Questions :: RE: Multiple X2 and Yn

Author: DPlotAdmin
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:38 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 2

BTW I'm getting "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" e-mails for all replies to your forum posts. Either your e-mail address is bad (or temporarily bad) or you should turn off "Always notify me of replies" in your Profile. If this is a temporary problem with your mail server... nevermind.
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Bug Reports :: RE: File open from double click

Author: DPlotAdmin
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:16 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 11

Jon knows, but for anybody else following this topic the problem has been fixed and a new version uploaded. If you're a licensed user you can get the update with Check for Updates on the Help menu. If you're on the mailing list... mail is going out as I write this.
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Suggestions/Questions :: RE: Multiple X2 and Yn

Author: DPlotAdmin
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:13 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 2

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I know the possibility of having a secondary X-axis is available by multiplying the X1 by a factor etc. However, I wish is an independent X2 is to be added in similar manner to the independent Y2 tool. This is very useful if I have two different data sets with different X1Y1 and X2Y2.

I guess I need to see an example. For me, I think this plot would be confusing.

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Another important question, In Excel you can set a log-log scale to X1Y1 and at the same time set a log-norm or norm-norm scale to X2Y2. Is this possible in Dplot.

No, not at present. A linear scale on X1 and a log scale on X2 only makes sense if X2 is independent, so that change needs to be made first. A log scale on an independent Y2 shoudn't be a huge difficulty, though.
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Suggestions/Questions :: RE: Menu Customization

Author: DPlotAdmin
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:09 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

I understand the need, but this most likely won't happen anytime soon. My to-do list is full of changes dealing with graphing capabilities.
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Suggestions/Questions :: RE: Enhancing Dplot for publication quality

Author: DPlotAdmin
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:07 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

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For example, control on curve thickness seems not to work if you changed thickness from 0.1 to 0.3 nothing happen; 0.4 mm seems thicker than I hoped for.

The line widths are always rounded to the nearest multiple of device units (pixels, printer dots, etc.). So on your display 0.01" may be identical to 0.02". When printed out the difference will be much more obvious. Same with metafiles, since the psuedo-resolution used in those is 2540 dpi.

The other thing to remember is that if you check "Specify size" and that size won't fit within the document window (or within the printer margins when printing), all line widths and font sizes will be scaled down proportionately.

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Secondly, may I suggest to improve the appearance of arrows (especially heads). Also, these arrows are sometimes not very flexible in a busy plot and maybe adding the possibility of a curved arrows would be useful.

Good idea, thanks.

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Thirdly, the \n operator which we use to add a line between the axis and its title is great but I am hoping for more control on this one as I wish if I can reduce the spacing to 1.5 line spacing

It uses single line spacing now. I'm a little reluctant to reduce that, as that might produce overlapping text depending on the characters used. But I'll look into it.

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Another thing, I always have multiple curves and would like to stack them together in one plot but with specifying an equal spacing between them (this can be done in excel by adding an incremental value to all data), Would it be possible to get this done in Dplot?

Stacked plots are on my to-do list but it may be a while before this gets done. If you have some patience and don't mind manipulating the data, you can do this now by shifting curves up or down, possibly multiplying Y values by some constant, and using the X,Y Labels command to subsitute the actual values for the nonsense values you'd now have along each axis. That's what I've done in the graph at the bottom of this page:

http://herring-cycling.com/maps/vmp3.html

(But it does require some patience.)
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Suggestions/Questions :: RE: Adding an image to plot

Author: DPlotAdmin
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:49 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

It can't be done in DPlot. Your best bet is an image editing program, preferably one that will work with metafiles like PowerPoint.
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Bug Reports :: RE: File open from double click

Author: jsc
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:41 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 11

Watch out for those medicinal doses - you'll have trouble finding the keyboard! (And you should be finding your way to bed!)

Jon

Suggestions/Questions :: Menu Customization

Author: imadahmed
Subject: Menu Customization
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:17 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

Hi David,

Is there any possibility to customize menu items and locate then on the user toolbar for easy access. For example, I tend to use the Extends/interval/size item frequently and wish if I can have it on the toolbar in similar manner to menu customization in Excel.

Thanks,
Imad

Suggestions/Questions :: Adding an image to plot

Author: imadahmed
Subject: Adding an image to plot
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:15 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

Hi David,

I would like to add an image on the top of my plot (not a background image), could you please let me know how to do this?

Many Thanks,
Imad

Suggestions/Questions :: Enhancing Dplot for publication quality

Author: imadahmed
Subject: Enhancing Dplot for publication quality
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:13 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

HI David,

I am using Dplot since sometime and I like it. I published two papers in which I used Dplot to generate my graphs. However, I still have few problems in enhancing the quality of my plots. For example, control on curve thickness seems not to work if you changed thickness from 0.1 to 0.3 nothing happen; 0.4 mm seems thicker than I hoped for.

Secondly, may I suggest to improve the appearance of arrows (especially heads). Also, these arrows are sometimes not very flexible in a busy plot and maybe adding the possibility of a curved arrows would be useful.

Thirdly, the \n operator which we use to add a line between the axis and its title is great but I am hoping for more control on this one as I wish if I can reduce the spacing to 1.5 line spacing

Another thing, I always have multiple curves and would like to stack them together in one plot but with specifying an equal spacing between them (this can be done in excel by adding an incremental value to all data), Would it be possible to get this done in Dplot?

Many Thanks,
Imad