# [OS X TeX] Question on scaling

Juan José Torrens jjtorrens at unavarra.es
Tue May 20 19:40:56 EDT 2014

Hi,

You can simply set up \unitlength right before every picture environment
which needs to be scaled down. For example, with the code

\setlength{\unitlength}{0.8pt}
\begin{picture}(240,180)(0,0)
\end{picture}

the size of the drawing will be the 80% of the original one. Please note
that, by default, \unitlenght=1pt.

Best wishes

Juanjo

> Asunto:[OS X TeX] Question on scaling
> De: Toke Knudsen <toke_knudsen at mac.com>
> Fecha: 19/05/14 15:16
> Para: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Hi all,
>
> For a book manuscript that I’m finalizing, I use eepic to generate figures; I’ve included an example of such a figure below.  After changing the dimensions of the book to the one the publisher wants, I find that many of the figures are now too large; they need to be scaled down.
>
> I tried \scalebox, but that doesn’t seem to work (or at least I can’t get it to work).  Is there any way that such figures could be scaled in order to avoid having to redo many of them?
>