Re: Multiple plots to a single pdf file

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Manoj Deshpande wrote:

> I was going through this mailing list, to find a possible solution for my RH7 
> box,
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/printing-multipage-postscript-files-td1673862.html
> 
> So it seems like a recent commit, should introduce the -append option on the 
> print command. However i dont seem to be getting the commit by default 
> atleast ( when i do apt-get install on a separate ubuntu machine, i still 
> dont see the -append option, in the print.m which i get), so i tried to 
> manually patch the print.m script with the diffs in 
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/dfc662a47b7a  
> 
> Even that doesnt seem to help, since it crashed on ghostscript.
> Do i need a svn update on specific directory or another related package ?
> 
> My end motive: have multiple plots printed a single pdf file, so that at the 
> end of my script, i will have one pdf showing multiple bar graphs.
> 
> How do i patch existing octave installation to handle -append ? Or are there 
> better ways of achieving my desired functionality ?
> I would appreciate any help from octave users.
> 
> Thanks,
> Manoj

I recommend you try using the system command to call ghostscript to do the job. 
See ...

        help system

For the ghostscript command ...

        http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=221

Ben