Help

This website helps you make sets of axes that you can print and use. You can configure various aspects of the axes, as explained below. When you print the page, you should only get the axes. The configuration pane, and this help panel, will not be printed. The axes themselves are created as SVGs so alternatively you could download the SVGs and import them into a program that understands SVG.

Page Setup

• Page Size: The idea is that the axes fit on a page of this size so that you can print them to the size you want, but ...
• Page Margins: ... it is quite hard to figure out the relationship between how big something is on the screen and whether it will print all on one page (and it appears to be very dependent on the browser). The "page margins" are subtracted from the page height and width so that if the axes appear on more than one page then you can shrink them slightly to get them on a single page. This can be an iterative process, so use "Print Preview" or "View as PDF" options in the print dialogue to check before printing. The units are pixels, which are quite small. In my experiments, with A4 paper, I found that 5 worked with Firefox while the margin needed to be 36 for Chrome.
• Borders: This is the space around each set of axes. If you cut out the axes, this should be the space left around each one.
• Page Orientation: Whether the page should be portrait or landscape.
• N-Up: How many sets of axes to display on the page.
• Number of Axes: How many distinct sets of axes to display on the page. If this is less than the number of sets of axes to display, the set will repeat as needed.
  So to get 2 copies of the same axes, set "N-Up" to 2 and "Number of Axes" to 1. To get 2 sets of axes, but each appearing twice, set "N-Up" to 4 and "Number of Axes" to 2.
• Current Axes: The rest of the options apply to a specific set of axes. This option controls which set of axes the displayed options apply to.

Axes Setup

• Font Size: This is the font size for the labels on the axes.
• Preserve aspect ratio: If this is checked then the two axes have the same scale. If not, they are scaled independently to best fit the available space.
• Grid: If this is checked then a grid is shown.
• Line width: This slider controls the width of the axes lines.
• Mark length: This slider controls the length of the marker lines.
• Mark width: This slider controls the width of the marker lines.

X/Y Axis

• Minimum: The minimum value on the relevant axis.
• Maximum: The maximum value on the relevant axis.
• Marks every: How often to put marks (counting outwards from 0).
• Labels every: How often to put labels, in number of marks.
• Axis label: The text to put at the end of each axis. Minor formatting is allowed here:
  • _word_ becomes word
  • *word* becomes word
  • *_word_* and _*word*_ become word

Lastly, a note on copyright. As you create the axes, you have the copyright on them. I have the copyright on the code, but it is released under the MIT Licence so if you want to improve it, feel free. It is available on github.

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