Re: Can't save a plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 8, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Jorgen Sandberg wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
>  
> I have installed OCTAVE 3.6.2 VS2010 on a Windows 7 machine. When i will save 
> a plot using the print or saveas command, I get an error message saying that 
> ghostscript is missing.

Instructions for installing ghostscript at on the wiki at the link below.

        
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows#Printing_.28installing_Ghostscript.29
 
> In addition the package symbolic does not install.

How did you try to install the symbolic package?

Have you looked at using maxima for symbolic calculations?

        http://maxima.sourceforge.net

Ben