automatically resize plots?

[floswald]

I changed the Plots backend to gr and ended up with a huge plot on the slide:

# A plot

```@example index
using Plots; gr()
Plots.plot(rand(10))
savefig("statplot.png");
```

# ![](statplot.png)

is there a way to automatically resize the plot? it's weird that with pyplot it has exactly the right size.

[piever]

I think there used to be some issues with Plots and GR concerning png size (some dpi things I don't fully understand, see for example JuliaGraphics/QML.jl#53

I think saving to svg is in general a better option, does that work better for you?

[floswald]

works perfectly with .svg! in that case you can forget about my PR #11
all of those things would probably be good to add to a wiki.

[piever]

The README could really use some love. Would you like to contribute some documentation / docstrings / examples? That'd be great! For example, if the presentation you're working on does not contain confidential material it could probably become a nice tutorial.

[floswald]

sure, will do. i really like the setup. I'll have an entire course to move away from notebooks and into proper julia/literate scripts.

[piever]

Btw, will you be using julia 1.0 or 0.6? I'm a bit unsure whether I should merge #8 : if you plan on using 0.6 would breaking 0.6 on master make it harder for you to contribute?

[floswald]

good question! you know what, let's take the plunge and do this on 1.0. that course will restart only in january, so plenty of time for julia 1.0 packages to get rolling. I won't use Remark.js for an upcoming presentation in a hyper secure government agency in 2 weeks time (god knows what happens if you want to use javascript!)