Re: printing to color .eps with meshc but not with surf

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:59 AM, Tim Willaert <address@hidden> wrote:

> >
> > On Mar 11, 2014, at 7:28 AM, timw <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > (I tried to add this to my earlier post of this morning but I didnt 
> > > manage to do this. In case that helps, the confirmation string was 
> > > e7a973e367cb2d940f92dc53e48c2d9026425eda).
> > >
> > >
> > > I simply wanted to add that all that detour about gbumps etc is 
> > > superfluous and need not be taken into account, since the same problem 
> > > persisted when I simply plotted my own function: with ‘meshc’ I was able 
> > > to use print -depsc fig.eps and obtain (despite the same warnings) a 
> > > color .eps image, when I use ‘surf’ it seems impossible to do that..
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tim
> >
> > What version of Octave are you running?
> >
> > With 3.8.1 on Mac OSX, I tried ...
> >
> >         surf ()
> >         print -depsc foo.eps
> >
> > The result has the proper color.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> i used 3.8.0 but got warning in both cases in print.m about 'fig2dev binaries 
> not found and not all output formats being available". and in both cases when 
> i open with "preview' afterwards a "postscript conversion error where courier 
> was used instead of {}". but in the case of meshc in spite of those warnings 
> the color stays while for surf it doesnt. for surfc the contours where in 
> colour and the rest wasnt... greetings&thanks
> On Mar 12, 2014 3:24 AM, "Ben Abbott" <address@hidden> wrote:

What OS are you running on? And have you tried both the gnuplot and fltk 
toolkits?

Ben