Re: Comfortable Octave usage on Windows

[joshua . stults]

I tried pdf, because that's what I usually generate in linux, but that version 
of Octave didn't come with pdf support, or we were missing some required 
software.  That was about a year ago, does anyone know if you can generate pdfs 
in the current version of Octave on windows?

------Original Message------
From: Søren Hauberg
To: Joshua Stults
Cc: maiky76
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Apr 30, 2009 09:55
Subject: Re: Comfortable Octave usage on Windows

tor, 30 04 2009 kl. 09:39 -0400, skrev Joshua Stults:
> If I had still been there I would have told them to ask the help list,
> so I'll ask belatedly: what's the recommended method of producing nice
> looking graphics from Octave in windows?  When I left I think they
> were using something like:
> 
> >> print("foo.jpg", "-djpg")
> 
> Those ended up looking really 'jaggy' when pasted into documents or
> slides, and I also seem to remember we had a lot of trouble with
> finding the fonts so the axis labels saved properly.  We used the
> windows installer from octave-forge.

I don't use Windows, but the some "problem" appears on other platforms
as it comes from the fact that you use a pixel based image format. Just
replace "jpg" with "pdf" in the above, and you should get really nice
graphics. I don't know if you can use PDF documents in Word, etc,
though...

Søren



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