On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ben Abbott
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(1) use G2PS, and ghostscript for off screen rendering
http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/
we are using gl2ps already to produce postscript when you print using the fltk_backend. However, you still need a "screen" with OpenGL setup on it (called "context" in OpenGL lingo) before using gl2ps. This means that you cannot run octave on a headless terminal (unless you use gnuplot)
(2) I'm becoming a fan of pgf/tikz, which would require a latex install to render to ps/pdf/etc.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/reviews/
Looks nice, but apart from the LaTeX run-time requirement, someone needs to code it (It is a completely new backend not based on gl-render/OpenGL), not a small task.
Shai
Shai