Re: help saving gnuplots...

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Adam Balgach wrote:

> I really need to save one of my 3d plots that i made in octave (and plotted
> with wgnuplot for win32) as im in winnt.  and all wgnuplot wants to do is
> write the data file on how to create the plot, but i would like the actual
> picture, stored as a gif or jpeg.  anyone know who to do this?  thanks.

Here's an easy way:

Display the plot you want to store.
Alt-PrintScreen     (which means to hold Alt and hit the PrintScreen key
                     one time)
open a gif editor
paste the plot into the editor
crop
save


The Alt-PrintScreen trick copies the image (including the window around it
-- thus you want to crop) into the Windows clipboard.  This should work in
NT/95/98.

I use L-View Pro a lot.  There might be better things (e.g., PhotoShop)
but it works and I got it on the web.  Windows PaintBrush works, but I
think it only stores in BMP.

Regards,

Mike

-- 
Michael B. Miller
University of Missouri--Columbia
http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/



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