Re: Graphics options defaults

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:09:36 +0200

Stephen Bailey wrote:
>
> Hi. Some simple graphics options questions:
>
> * How to I get ROOT to plot black lines on a white background
> by default?
> I currently have a histogram plotted and I was able to change
> the canvas background to white by hand, but the
> TFrame->SetFillAttributes menu option seems to defy my desire
> to make its background white.
>
> * How can I specify the dimensions of the plot in the Postscript file
> which is saved? e.g. I want portrait with 1" margins rather
> than the default of landscape with ~1 cm margins.
>
> * I'd like to be able to set all my defaults once and then not have
> to worry about them again. Where/how should I do that?

Black lines on the white background is the default.
I suggest you look at the tutorials and Root HOWTOs, in particular:
http://root.cern.ch/root/HowtoPS.html
http://root.cern.ch/root/HowtoStyle.html

The list of Root HOWTOS is at:
http://root.cern.ch/root/Howto.html

The list of Root tutorials is at:
http://root.cern.ch/root/Tutorials.html

I would also recommend the Root course (in 3 parts) at:
ftp://root.cern.ch/root/course1.ps.gz
ftp://root.cern.ch/root/course2.ps.gz
ftp://root.cern.ch/root/course3.ps.gz

Rene Brun