


PLSVPA(3)                   PLplot API                  PLSVPA(3)


NAME
       plsvpa - Specify viewport in absolute coordinates

SYNOPSIS
       plsvpa(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)

DESCRIPTION
       Alternate  routine to plvpor(3) for setting up the viewport.  This rou-
       tine should be used only if the viewport is required to have a definite
       size  in  millimeters.  The routine plgspa(3) is useful for finding out
       the size of the current subpage.

       Redacted form: plsvpa(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)

       This function is used in example 10.

ARGUMENTS
       xmin (PLFLT, input)
              The distance of the left-hand edge  of  the  viewport  from  the
              left-hand edge of the subpage in millimeters.

       xmax (PLFLT, input)
              The  distance  of  the  right-hand edge of the viewport from the
              left-hand edge of the subpage in millimeters.

       ymin (PLFLT, input)
              The distance of the bottom edge of the viewport from the  bottom
              edge of the subpage in millimeters.

       ymax (PLFLT, input)
              The  distance  of  the  top edge of the viewport from the bottom
              edge of the subpage in millimeters.


AUTHORS
       Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and  maintain  PLplot.   This
       man  page  was  automatically  generated from the DocBook source of the
       PLplot  documentation,  maintained  by  Alan  W.   Irwin   and   Rafael
       Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO
       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.















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