Re: Saves incomplete, multi-plot figure to file.

[PetrSt]

gholladay wrote
> Sadly not.  When I replaced:
> 
>     figure ("position", [0.5, 0.5, 2.8, 2.0] .* position);
> 
> with simply:
> 
>     figure (1);
> 
> It displayed the full figure with both plots (previously only partial) on
> the interim window but, when I tried both 'saveas' and 'print' commands
> for various file types, it froze Octave up (or was just running
> continuously for a long time) and the only way I was able to stop it was
> to close the figure window, which forced my to close Octave completely.
> 
> Just out of curiousity, I restored the figure command to it's previous
> settings and it restored the ability to save the file but back to only a
> partial figure.  I'm at a loss.

I have seen the command figure(1) in some advices here, but I'm not sure if
it is a good way, since the number 1 then represents a handle of figure (if
it doesn't exist a new one with this handle should be created). This is all
o.k., but print command operates with gcf, so maybe it would be a good idea
to check, if gcf returns 1, or explicitly define 1 as handle in print
command. I prefer simple command figure(); or just figure; or fig=figure();
without any handle specification (fig=figure('property',value,...);, if any
figure property has to be changed). It is just a note, because I assume that
the figure you wanted to print was the only created figure at that time, so
the gcf pointed to the correct one.
Normally print takes several seconds, but I remember the first time I used
it, it took several minutes, since I used a graph with lots of points and
notations, but it worked. My advice is to try a simple example, like
figure; plot(1:10); print -djpeg test.jpeg;
If it doesn't work or takes too long then the problem is elsewhere. You
could also try to change the type of file (.eps or .pdf). If it works fine,
then it should work also with your graph. If it's complicated and huge, let
it run for longer time (in my case, as described above, the figure
background turned to black and stuck for 10-15 minutes).

In former discussion (
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/plot-not-filling-the-page-and-resulting-in-not-clear-figure-td4651044.html#a4651115
<http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/plot-not-filling-the-page-and-resulting-in-not-clear-figure-td4651044.html#a4651115>
 
) about printing to file I made a script, which could also help you. It was
about subplots, but basically the same problem.
test_print2pdf.m
<http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n4652793/test_print2pdf.m>  




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