Re: Fwd: Re: Problems with printed figures

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:34:28 +1100, Terry Duell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:21:51 +1100, Ron.Simonson <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My email to you was a bit hasty I see.  Gnuplot does
>>> not have an eps output type.  I sent the output to
>>> png, then used: convert filename.png filename.eps
>>> using the ImageMagik tools.  Imported the filename.eps
>>> file into LibreOffice.  It seems to work.  Will this
>>> work for you?
>>
>>
>> Octave "print" function does have eps, ps and other vector output devices.
>> I hadn't looked at any of those. I'll give some a try and see how it goes.
>
>
> Tried eps, ps etc but it seems that the current Fedora version of
> LibreOffice can't handle those either!
> Just tried using the fltk graphics toolkit. That exports an svg which
> LibreOffice imports, but legend text missing and x axis
> tic values are written over the x axis making them illegible. Also the grid
> lines are a rather dreadful looking set of dashed lines, even though I used
> "-solid"...maybe that switch is for some other lines, not sure.
> It isn't looking good here for simple method of getting decent figures from
> Octave in a LibreOffice document.
> I will keep looking/experimenting, and hope someone has some good advice.
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Regards,
> Terry Duell
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I know this sounds like mor ework, but at the  end is the fastest and
more effective way I know to get high-quality customized plots.

- print as svg from Octave
- Open the svg and improve, prune the plot and do what you want using Inkscape
- Save the svg to any format you like. Inkscape uses cairo for most
exports and it works pretty well. If you export to pdf you will get
not compressed pdf that can make the file big sometimes. For that
export to eps and then use epstopdf to get a compressed pdf.

Hope this helps you.