Re: save a plot to PDF?

[Henry F. Mollet]

This may be a loaded question but I truly don't understand. If it is so easy
to save a graph as pdf or eps using AquaTerm on a Mac, why is this so
difficult on other platforms. Well perhaps platform is the wrong word
because I would have to use the same route as is being discussed if I use
X11 on my iMac.
Henry


on 9/29/05 11:27 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov at address@hidden wrote:

> Paul Kienzle wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 29, 2005, at 1:49 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> 
>>> On 29-Sep-2005, Jake wrote:
>>> 
> ...
>>> | Anyone know how to save an Octave plot as a PDF?
>>> 
>>> Save as postscript and use epstopdf?
>>> 
>>> Use
>>> 
>>>   __gnuplot_set__ term pdf
>>>   __gnuplot_set__ output "foo.pdf"
>>>   replot
>>> 
> ...
>> 
>> Paul Kienzle <address@hidden>
>>     * plot/print.m: Add support for PDF output.
>> 
> 
> 
> Gnuplot pdf terminal relies on pdflite library which (at least
> as far as I can tell) is not GPL compatible. As a result
> many distributions will not have it enabled.
> 
> Quality of pdf terminal is not as good (in my opinion)
> as quality of postscript terminal.
> 
> So, at this moment I usually recommend to people postscript to pdf
> route.
> 
> The drawback is that it adds yet another dependence (on my
> system epstopdf is part of tetex distribution), so perhaps
> ps2pdf would be better (this one is part of ghostscript,
> but that dependence is already here).
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Dmitri.




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