Re: saving in postscript format

[Daniel Heiserer]

Gerald Marewo (unix) wrote:
> 
> What is the Octave equivalent to Matlab's "print" command for saving a
> graph to file?
It is not part of the distribution AFAIK.
I attached what was posted in the newsgroupt some time ago.
It works.
> 
> Gerald Marewo
>> cat print.m
## usage: PRINT("filename",terminal):
##            * sends a copy of the current plot to a PostScript file
##            * if  filename is missing, pipe to "| lpr"

function print(file,terminal);
  ## $Id: print.m,v 1.3 1997/02/08 09:50:30 mstorti Exp mstorti $ 

  if nargin==0
    file="|lpr";
  else
        eval(['gset output "',file,'"']);
  endif 
        # bugfix
        if nargin < 2
                gset term postscript color
                replot
                gset term X
                replot
        else
                if terminal=='ps_' 
                        gset term postscript color
                        replot
                        gset term X
                        replot
                elseif terminal=='eps' 
                        gset term postscript eps color
                        replot
                        gset term X
                        replot
                elseif terminal=='pbm' 
                        gset term pbm color
                        replot
                        gset term X
                        replot
                end
        
        end
endfunction 

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