On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ben Abbott <
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> On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:
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> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Bob Odom <
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> > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Philip Hahn wrote:
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> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Philip Hahn <
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> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bob Odom <
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> > You need to install: epstool, pstoedit, and fig2dev
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> > Bob,
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> > I also noticed that \tau in figures now shows at "au" instead of the greek letter
> > tau. Will those packages fix that as well?
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> > Thanks,
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> > OK; I got an error message:
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> > title("\tau")
> > "warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character ' '"
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> > Not sure what to do. Thanks,
> > philip
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> > philip
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> > Philip,
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> > I think that "missing glyph" means it can't find, or you don't have, the appropriate fonts
> > installed. I would think that in a complete LaTex installation, you should have
> > everything installed. Also I think that "fltk" is not quite mature yet. One thing you
> > could try is to switch to gnuplot with "graphics_toolkit" and see if the \tau shows up
> > properly. If the \tau shows up on the gnuplot, then there may be a configurstion issue
> > or a bug with fltk. I can't help there.
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> > Bob
> > Bob (and group),
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> > Even with gnuplot, I get the ft_render error for missing glyph.
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> > octave:11> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> > octave:12> close all
> > octave:13> plot(1)
> > octave:14> title("\tau");
> > warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character ` '
> > warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character ` '
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> > I installed the packages Bob ( epstool, pstoedit, and fig2dev ) recommended and I still get the __fltk_redraw__() error. I'm guessing (bob recommended in a direct email) there is a problem with LaTeX. I tried grepping through the config.log but I'm not sure what I am looking for.
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> > [ trying to get my PhD dissertations figures printed!!! :-) ]
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> > thanks for the help,
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> > thanks,
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> > philip
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> The FLTK backend does not support LaTeX or TeX. You'll need to use the gnuplot backend for pseudo TeX rendering.
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> What type of output format are you looking to use?
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> Ben,
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> .png or .jpeg is fine.
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> My initial problems with 3.2.4 was
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> 1) font size not printing correctly
> 2) subplot labels overlapping adjacent subplots
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> Upgrading to 3.4.2, my problem is now
> 1) greek characters
> 2) font size is respected, but increasing them to 14 or 16 on a three-pane plot causes overlap issues again.
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> I have both on my machine, don't care which I use if I can get the issues resolved.
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> thank you,
> philip