Re: Help with saveas and fltk

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 2, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Rick M. Cox wrote:

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> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
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> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
> 
> 
>> On Jun 2, 2013, at 9:32 AM, RickMCox wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't have a windows box to experiment with, but given your experience,
>> a
>>> work around would be to not change the size of the figure windows you plan
>>> to saveas(), or print().
>>> 
>>>> Does this have something to do with the complexity/size of the plot?  My
>>>> figure is a custom drawn Smith Chart with 3000+ (x,y) pairs describing
>> the
>>>> circles and arcs.
>>> 
>>> Complexity should not be an issue.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks.  If I leave the figure window the default (smaller) size when it
>> is
>>> generated then saveas hangs up and the figure is "not responding".
>>> 
>>> Rick
>> 
>> That happens when you ...
>> 
>>      print -depsc test.eps
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Ben:
> 
> With the figure at the default size and visible to the side of my Octave
> session window I typed your print command below.
> 
> The drawing in the window became scrambled and Octave sent the following
> message:
> 
> 'D:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> program or batch file
> 
> Octave is then unresponsive and I have to close the session window.
> 
> I tried this as a saveas command with the same result.
> 
> Rick

Ok. The problem can be fixed by installing Octave using a path with no spaces 
in it.

There may be other solutions.  If so, perhaps a windows user can offer some 
help.

Ben