[pstricks] Page Orientation and Origin Location

[Herbert Voss]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Now that I have the units under control, are there overall settings that
> allow me to change the page orientation from portrait to landscape, and 
> move
> the origin point further to the left?
> 
>   On my initial two illustrative plots I have the limits for pspicture
> set at (0,8)(9,5). With units=1.5cm, the plot is offset near the right edge

You can always use

\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{%
... the pspicture environment ...
}

then you always get the optimal image size.

> of the page. If I change the initial x-axis location to -0.5 then half the
> y-axis label is hidden because it's outside the viewport. But, there is
> plenty of room on the left.

the box, given by the values is easy to see with

foo
\psframebox[linestyle=dashed]{%
   \begin{pspicture}(0,8)(9,5)
     \psline(0,8)(9,5)
   \end{pspicture}
}
bar


Herbert