How to make wide plot without impacting all the labels?

Question

So far I've tried resizebox and tikzpicture xscale/yscale. They stretch all the labels (including the title) and make them look very ugly. Is there any way to avoid it?

Above is what I get, below is what I want (made in Maple): Code sample:

\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[margin=0.1in]{geometry}
\pgfplotsset{every axis x label/.append style={font=\tiny, yshift=0.8em}, every axis y label/.append style={font=\tiny, yshift=-2em}, every tick label/.append style={font=\tiny}}
\begin{document}
\newpage

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=2.5, xscale = 3.5]
\begin{axis}[xlabel={t (fs)},
ylabel={C (eV)},
xtick={0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25},
enlargelimits = false,
ymajorgrids=true,
grid style=solid,
title = {C(t)}]
\addplot[color=red, mark=none]
coordinates {
(0,80)
(1,0)
(2,-10)
(3,0)
(4,60)
(5,70)
(6,60)
(7,0)
(8,-10)
(9,0)
(10,50)
(11,60)
(12,50)
(13,0)
(14,-10)
(15,0)
(16,40)
(17,50)
(18,40)
(19,0)
(20,-10)
(21,0)
(22,30)
(23,40)
(24,30)
(25,0)
};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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You can use smooth: \addplot[color=red, mark=none,smooth] and \begin{axis}[ymin = 0, ymax = 5, xmin = 0, xmax = 5. — Bobyandbob, Apr 30 '17 at 09:07
Thanks, I 've already removed both little questions, since they are answered. — Sigmund Freud, Apr 30 '17 at 09:13

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '17 at 09:14

As you can read here you could simply use scale only axis to resize the whole graph, but not to scale labels.

Two: A smooth plot is achieved by using the option smooth. And to have limits you can use xmin, xmax, ymin and ymax.

Code (I removed the \tiny to make the effect really visible):

\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[margin=0.1in]{geometry}
%\pgfplotsset{every axis x label/.append style={font=\tiny, yshift=0.8em}, every axis y label/.append style={font=\tiny, yshift=-2em}, every tick label/.append style={font=\tiny}}
\begin{document}
\newpage

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}%[yscale=2.5, xscale = 3.5]
\begin{axis}[height=.7\paperheight,width=.6\linewidth,scale only axis,xlabel={t (fs)},
ylabel={C (eV)},
xtick={0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25},
enlargelimits = false,
ymajorgrids=true,
grid style=solid,
title = {C(t)}]
\addplot[color=red, mark=none,smooth]
coordinates {
(0,80)
(1,0)
(2,-10)
(3,0)
(4,60)
(5,70)
(6,60)
(7,0)
(8,-10)
(9,0)
(10,50)
(11,60)
(12,50)
(13,0)
(14,-10)
(15,0)
(16,40)
(17,50)
(18,40)
(19,0)
(20,-10)
(21,0)
(22,30)
(23,40)
(24,30)
(25,0)
};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

@SigmundFreud If it solved your problem consider accepting the answer (green button). — TeXnician, Apr 30 '17 at 09:16

How to make wide plot without impacting all the labels?

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