Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ scaling figures

[classactdynamo]

Hello,

My adviser posed a question to me that I could not answer. He is writing a paper where he uses LaTex to draw the figure he needs to illustrate a concept. He wanted to be able to draw the figure, then if it turned out to be just a little too small, be able to scale it without recomputing all the lengths of lines and sizes of circles. Is there a way to perform multiplication in LaTex so that, for example, if I want to draw a horizontal line length 2.57 and then scale that line, I can call a command with the structure

line{0}{multiply{scaling_factor,2.57}}?

I know these are not actual latex commands; I just wanted to illustrate the structure of what I am looking for. Is any of this reasonable? Thanks for any help you can give.

Cheers,

CAD

[frabjous]

You could try using the \scalebox command from the graphicx package.

There may exist other ways of doing it, depending on what package(s) is/are being to create the figure in question.

[localghost]

[...] My adviser posed a question to me that I could not answer. He is writing a paper where he uses LaTex to draw the figure he needs to illustrate a concept. He wanted to be able to draw the figure, then if it turned out to be just a little too small, be able to scale it without recomputing all the lengths of lines and sizes of circles. [...]

It's interesting to know which tool or package he uses to draw his figures or whether he does this by using the picture environment from vanilla LaTeX.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten