Re: Cannot draw figures in Mac OS X

[lindwall]

X11 uses Postscript calls, so if I also want to save a figure as a 
Postscript
file, the X11 display will show how the .ps file will appear. An 
Aquaterm display
can be quite different. Also, I seem to have better luck getting 
colored images
to look the way that I want in X11.

> On 2/19/04 6:33 AM, "A S Hodel" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I've been using octave on a mac for 6 years or more now.
> > I'm currently running Octave on both G3 and G4 machines, some
> > running Jaguar (10.2.x) and one running Panther (10.3.x).
> > The basic machine configurations are:
> >
> > Jaguar:
> > - fink install of octave, Xfree-86, gnuplot, and Aquaterm
> >
> > Panther:
> > - Apple X11
> > - fink install of octave, gnuplot, and Aquaterm -or-
> > - CVS install of octave (requires a couple tweaks),
> >   fink install of gnuplot and aquaterm.
> >
> > I'm able to use both Aquaterm and gnuplot on both OS's; my
> > preference (due habits acquired due to using octave to mac OS X ) is
> > gnuplot.
> >
> > I've not tried to install octave without gnuplot/X11.  That may be a
> > part
> > of the problem (others will have to speak to that).
>
> Thanks. As much as I try, I always seem to be about 10 steps behind. 
> Several
> people pointed out that AquaTerm allows easy save as pdf or eps, 
> whereas
> this is more difficult in X11 (and probably Xfree-86?). I find this to 
> be
> very useful, because I can then use the saved pdf in a powerpoint and I
> believe an eps will make it a lot easier if I later want to include a 
> graph
> for publication in a scientific journal. I can also have as many 
> AquaTerm
> windows as I wish, be it with "gset term aqua n" at the octave prompt 
> or
> within a script.
>
> My question is what could I do with X11 or Xfree-86 (similar to X11) 
> that I
> cannot presently do with *octave* running in my terminal window using 
> the
> tcsh shell and using *AquaTerem via gnuplot called by octave* for my 
> graphs.
> What are the advantages of X11? So far I've only heard that it is more
> difficult to print a pdf in X11.
> Henry
>
>
>
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