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[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Jun-2007, Daniel Oberhoff wrote:

| Hi all,
| 
| I am running a self compiled octave 2.9.12 together with an equally  
| self compiled gnuplot 4.3. I make a plot of a small gaussian image  
| patch like this:
| 
| [x,y]=meshgrid(-2:2,-2:2);
| g=exp(-(x.*x+y.*y)/8);
| pcolor(g);
| 
| and then print it like this:
| 
| print -dpdf gausmask_octave.pdf

Hmm, I see:

  octave:1> sombrero
  octave:2> print -pdf foo.pdf
  error: print: unknown option `-pdf'
  [...]

Where did you get your print function?  What does it do to generate a
pdf file?

jwe