Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ pst-plot | Let Axes of a Plot disappear

[aquamarijn]

Hello Community,

How can I prevent the axes to show in a graph? The option axesstyle=none doesn't seem to work in the following example; the axes do show. Setting linewidth=0mm or linecolor=white isn't a neat solution.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{pst-plot,pstricks-add}

\begin{document}
  \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(9,6)
    \psaxes[axesstyle=none]{->}(7,5)
  \end{pspicture}
\end{document}

Using MiKTeX 2.9 I have updated all packages.


Thank you,
Jaap

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Jaap,

welcome to the board!

Set linestyle=none, and you could do the same for ticks and labels:

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\psaxes[axesstyle=none,ticks=none,labels=none,linestyle=none]{->}(7,5)

Stefan

[aquamarijn]

Hello Stefan,

thank you kindly for answering; your suggestion works. I am still puzzled.

Why is axesstyle=none alone not enough? In the book "PSTricks, Grafik mit PostScript für TeX und LaTeX" by Herbert Voss there is an example on page 158 with \psaxes[axesstyle=none](3,2) without linestyle=none. In the book no axes are shown. I do get axes with the same code. The option axesstyle=none seems intended to suppress te axes, why then is linestyle=none also required?


Regards, Jaap

[CrazyHorse]

Why is axesstyle=none alone not enough? In the book "PSTricks, Grafik mit PostScript für TeX und LaTeX" by Herbert Voss there is an example on page 158 with \psaxes[axesstyle=none](3,2) without linestyle=none. In the book no axes are shown. I do get axes with the same code. The option axesstyle=none seems intended to suppress te axes, why then is linestyle=none also required?

linestyle is not required:

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\psaxes[axesstyle=none,ticks=none,labels=none]{->}(7,5)


will print nothing.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

linestyle is not required:

\psaxes[axesstyle=none,ticks=none,labels=none]{->}(7,5)


will print nothing.

It does - tested with this code and XeLaTeX, and LaTeX in dvi mode, and pdfLaTeX with auto-pst-pdf via pdf option:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-plot}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(9,6)
\psaxes[axesstyle=none,ticks=none,labels=none]{->}(7,5)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

Output:

axes.png (1.31 KiB) Viewed 4952 times

Stefan

[CrazyHorse]

It does - tested with this code and XeLaTeX, and LaTeX in dvi mode, and pdfLaTeX with auto-pst-pdf via pdf option:

Then you have an old pst-plot version. axesstyle=none already implies that the lines are not drawn. The current version is:

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pst-plot.tex    2012/05/03 1.42 `pst-plot' (tvz,hv)

Herbert

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Herbert,

it's not very old, though not the most current: 2011/04/13 1.29. So it seems to be a recent improvement, good to know for users of TeX Live 2011 and earlier.

I updated and tested with 2012/05/03 1.42 and the lines are gone.

Thanks,

Stefan

[aquamarijn]

Hello Stefan, Herbert,

thank you for answering my question. Indeed using an old version of pst-plot caused my system to print the axes in spite of the option axesstyle=none. In this episode I also learned how to update my packages using WinEdt and MiKTeX. What a nice first experience in this forum!


Regards,
Jaap