Re: Cannot produce fig file

[kpchiao]

Thanks the response from Pantxo.
The reason why fig cannot be created is due to the bug in ghostscript 9.22.  
I found a solution (temporarily) in ubuntu 18.04. The steps are:
1. Download the ghostscript 9.23  here
<https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs923/ghostscript-9.23-linux-x86_64.tgz>
 
.
2. Untar it at, say, /foo/.
3. sudo mv /usr/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs_orig_922
4. sudo ln -s /foo/ghostscript-9.23-linux-x86_64/gs-923-linux-x86_64
/usr/bin/gs
5. Done!

That works, and the fig file will be created correctly inside octave GUI.
But this is not a proper way to cope with such bug. I hope ubuntu guys will
fix this is bug in the next version (say, 18.04.1). 

BTW, how do I announce such bug to the ubuntu developers?



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Best regards, 
kpchiao
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