PLSDIMAP(3plplot)

💅 PLSDIMAP (3plplot) — the metafile-coordinate glow-up page 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the PLplot API corner of the manual, where we're talking about plsdimap. Pull up a chair, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

plsdimap — it sets up the transformation from metafile coordinates, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plsdimap(dimxmin, dimxmax, dimymin, dimymax, dimxpmm, dimypmm)

that's the whole vibe, six args, in that order, don't rearrange them, periodt 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the deal: this function sets up the transformation from metafile coordinates. The size of the plot gets scaled so that the aspect ratio is preserved — iconic behaviour, honestly, no squished plots here ✨

That said — and this is the important part, bestie — this isn't really intended to be a general-purpose facility just yet. The docs even say they're not sure why the user would need it, "for one" 😭 so don't come for it expecting main-character utility, it's giving experimental side-quest energy.

There's also a redacted form, which is literally the same thing:

plsdimap(dimxmin, dimxmax, dimymin, dimymax, dimxpmm, dimypmm)

Heads up: this function is not used in any examples. Not one. Zero. It's lowkey mysterious like that 👑💀

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

Six inputs, all of them mysterious little icons, all of them flagged NEEDS DOCUMENTATION — I'm not making that up, that's genuinely what the page says, the docs are still in their unfinished era 💀

• dimxmin (PLINT(3plplot), input) — NEEDS DOCUMENTATION
• dimxmax (PLINT(3plplot), input) — NEEDS DOCUMENTATION
• dimymin (PLINT(3plplot), input) — NEEDS DOCUMENTATION
• dimymax (PLINT(3plplot), input) — NEEDS DOCUMENTATION
• dimxpmm (PLFLT(3plplot), input) — NEEDS DOCUMENTATION
• dimypmm (PLFLT(3plplot), input) — NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

fr fr, that's the whole list. Note the types though, because they matter: the four dim*min/dim*max ones are PLINT(3plplot), and the two dim*pmm ones are PLFLT(3plplot) — integers vs floats, keep them straight bestie, your compiler will absolutely clock you otherwise 🙈

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

Many developers — who are credited over at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php — have contributed to PLplot over its long history. Kings and queens, all of them, we stan a long-running open-source project 👑🌈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's giving more than this page does, lowkey 🦋

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and that's the page!! 🌸 source/version business for the sign-off: this is the PLplot API man page, PLSDIMAP(3plplot), dated August, 2026 — go forth and preserve those aspect ratios, bestie 💅✨🫶