Re: feature request

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, Abraham van der Merwe wrote:
>
> >  --scale is very important to me. The reason for this is that I use dia to
> > make figures that I embed in latex documents. The problem is that by
> > default, if I convert dia -> eps (or fig), the figure doesn't fit on a page
> > (and even if it did, it would still be to big).
>
> This would solve my problems too (I use LyX / LaTeX). I didn't realise
> that the printing "scale" would change the exported scale, but it does
> so at least I can do it via the GUI for now :-) A --scale would be
> great though, and let me do it in my Makefiles.

For latex, why don't you just set the width option when including the
graphics?  Something like this:
  \includegraphics[width=4in]{filename.eps}

(I might have the syntax slightly wrong.  Been a while since I used
latex).  That is using the graphicx package.

James.