pdflatex + gnuplot?

[Leo Butler]

I am using octave 3.6.2 and gnuplot 4.6.0, both from debian testing. The
documentation for print states

,----
|          `pdflatex'
|                Generate a LaTeX (or TeX) file for labels, and eps/ps/pdf
|                for graphics.  The file produced by `epslatexstandalone'
|                can be processed directly by LaTeX.  The other formats
|                are intended to be included in a LaTeX (or TeX)
|                document.  The `tex' device is the same as the
|                `epslatex' device.  The `pdflatex' device is only
|                available for the FLTK graphics toolkit.
`----

The cairolatex terminal is capable of generating nice pdf/eps+latex
files, with the only change in code being eps -> pdf.

I realize that octave provides an abstraction layer above gnuplot/fltk,
but perhaps there is some really easy way to implement this in octave as
it stands without patching code? Am I right- or wrong-headed?

Leo