Increase font size in octave legend?

Question

Does anyone know how to increase legend font-size in octave?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '18 at 16:26

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Not sure if this was a solution when the OP was submitted, but this is pretty easy now:

    h = legend({"foo","bar"});      
    set (h, "fontsize", 16);

answered Jan 23 '18 at 16:26

sg_man

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 29 '14 at 07:48

4

This worked for me (kubuntu 9.04, octave 3.2.2)

print("plot.eps","-deps", "-F:30")

This forces all text elements in figure to be printed with font size 30. See also octave function: print.

edited May 29 '14 at 07:48

BREMI

answered Jan 07 '10 at 03:37

fsaravia

That worked for me. Luckily, I've moved on to a better plotting and computation option since my days with octave. Python, numpy, and matplotlib rock! – cpatrick Jan 07 '10 at 14:47

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

4

Based on another Posting on Stackoverflow I found the following solution.

copied_legend = findobj(gcf(),"type","axes","Tag","legend");
set(copied_legend, "FontSize", FontSize);

GNU Octave, version 3.6.3

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

Community

answered May 28 '14 at 12:52

BREMI

/EDIT2: it does work correctly for fontsize, but if you try to set fontweight to bold it will take effect only on the legend symbols, not the legend text. However this bug happens only inside the gnuplot window, if you print into a file, the legend text is correctly bolded, and the symbols are reverted to non-bold (probably another issue of Octave with gnuplot...). – gaborous Nov 07 '14 at 13:43

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 28 '12 at 14:08

2

Try the following:

'{\fontsize{12} legend1-text}'

Where you have to include it for every legend text. My command, that actually worked, was:

legend('{\fontsize{10} Low }', '{\fontsize{10} Medium }', '{\fontsize{10} High }')

edited Sep 28 '12 at 14:08

Jav_Rock

answered Sep 27 '12 at 17:17

Khaled Alanezi

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 17 '12 at 10:39

0

Get axis object handle and set 'fontsize' property (octave 3.2.4):

ax = gca();
set(ax, 'fontsize', 15);

edited Jan 17 '12 at 10:39

musefan

answered Jan 17 '12 at 10:38

vifinder

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