Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ TikZ - Default Graph Size, Adjusting It

[LaTexLearner]

I am just getting started on TikZ and am wondering what the default size is for TikZ graphs. I made the arbitrary graph below and printed it and it seems that each unit is a little smaller than 1cm.

What is the default size for graphs? And how is it adjusted?

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}

\draw[help lines] (-1,-1) grid (4,4);

\draw (0,0)--(3,4)--(4,-1)--(-1,-0.4);

\draw (0,0)--(2,4);

\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

There could be multiple reasons for that behaviour, most likely the printer driver does some monkey business. Check if the autifit option is not set. Usually, this is the troublemaker. If TeX should really be off, it is by a few angstrom, meaning the one or two atoms of a chemical element in diameter.

[LaTexLearner]

There could be multiple reasons for that behaviour, most likely the printer driver does some monkey business.

Yup, that was it... my PDF reader/driver was scaling everything down for no reason. Everything fit comfortably inside the margins pre-scaling... Not sure what the scaling down was for.

Thanks!