Re: octave-forge, grace, and fink

[Henry F. Mollet]

This indeed works great and the EPS-file may come in handy for the following
reason: Assume that you saved an Octave/GnuPlot/AquaTerm graph as pdf and
now insert it into MSWord because you have to submit a manuscript for review
as a single pdf (file) and you are using  MSWord for the text portion.  If
you print the MS Word document or the PDF of the whole MSWord file on a
Postscript Printer, the quality of the inserted PDF-figs are 'lousy' because
MSWord cannot handle the PDF with vector-based graphics too well and
rasterizes to a bitmap. One could submit separate PDF's for all the figs or
one could insert the EPS-figs. MSWord will not 'mess' with the EPS file and
will print it with best quality on a Postscript Printer. Problem is that one
cannot see the EPS file in the MSWord file unless the EPS is saved with Tiff
or Pict preview. My version of AquaTerm (0.1(V.0.3) does not provide for
this option but perhaps later version of AquaTerm do or will do.

Joe helped me with this offline. Thanks.
Henry

on 1/11/05 4:47 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:

> This doesn't answer your question, but if you have AquaTerm installed, you
> can save a plotted gnuplot image as either .pdf or .eps via "Save as" in the
> Aquaterm window. This eliminates the need to write the .eps file via a
> replot or separate print statement.
> 
> Joe
> 
> on 1/11/05 2:23 PM, A Hodel at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 11, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
>> 
>>> Did you try installing gnuplot?  Fink has it, and I know the HPC
>>> version of
>>> octave requires it...
>>> 
>>> --j
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks; yes, I have gnuplot and can convert to eps using my printeps
>> script submitted a couple of years ago.  octave-forge defaults to using
>> grace, which appears to be part of my problem.  I've temporarily
>> reverted back to using only gnuplot.
>> 
>> On Jan 11, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>> 
>>> A Hodel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> octave:2> print -depsc 'testplot.eps'
>>> 
>>> I get a syntax error message on this one:
>>>  octave:2> print -depsc 'testplot.eps'
>>> parse error:
>>> 
>>>   syntax error
>>> 
>>>>>> print -depsc 'testplot.eps'
>> 
>> The octave-forge web site says to enter
>> command("print")
>> to enable this type of syntax.  Apparently print is not in my version
>> of octave.
>> 
>>> But print() works:
>>> octave:3> print(" -depsc", "testplot.eps")
>>> warning: in fopen near line 55, column 3:
>>> warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary
>>> 
>>> (I am using 2.1.64)
>> 
>> I'm working with 2.1.53.  That may be the problem.  The mac fink
>> installer has octave-2.1.57 in the unstable branch as well as an
>> updated version of octave-forge.  I'll give them a try and see if that
>> fixes things.
>> 
>> Thank you both.
>> 
>> A Scottedward Hodel, PhD, Associate Professor
>> Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 200 Broun Hall
>> Auburn University, AL 36849-5201
>> (334) 844-1854  Fax: (34) 844-1809
>> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas
>> 
>> 
>> 
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