gnuplot: error with axis label

Question

I'm trying to use gnuplot and the eps latex terminal.

I created this image: As you can see the x labels are all superposed. How I fix this problem?

Answer 1

Try to rotate xtics. Like

set xtics nomirror rotate by -45 font ",8"

Answer 2

There are a couple of ways. You can rotate the xtics as maverik mentioned, or you can adjust the spacing by

set xtics 4e11

That will make a tic every 4e11 units, for example.

Gnuplot is not necessarily going to make an intelligent choice about how many tics there will be, such that they don't overlap. If you have long-format tics (scientific notation like you have, or time data for instance) you often have to adjust the spacing manually.