figure printing problems

[Leslie Allen Lantz]

octave org Rep,

I am using Octave 6.2.0 to “print" a series of plots with “xlabel”, “ylabel”, “title”  and “legend” functions on a iMac.  Interactively, the plots all appear correct; but, when I view the postscript file resulting from the “print” command, I get “label”, “Title” and “legend” function results that have many characters missing.  Here is the code for the first plot(see Fig1.pdf attached):

%

% force/acceleration time histories

% all-on-one

%

figure 1; hold on; grid on;

plot(v1a(:,1),v1a(:,2)); %X force

plot(v2a(:,1),v2a(:,2)); %X force

plot(v3a(:,1),v3a(:,2)); %X force

plot(v4a(:,1),v4a(:,2)); %X force

legend("Fx 1","Fx 2","Fx 3","Fx 4");

title("Body X Force State History");

xlabel("Time(seconds)");

ylabel("X Force(N)");

print -bestfit -landscape -Ftimes:12 -Ftimes:12 -dpsc plots.ps

It looks fine and so does the second print resulting from this code(Fig2.pdf NOT included):

figure 2; hold on; grid on;

plot(v1a(:,1),v1a(:,3)); %Y force

plot(v2a(:,1),v2a(:,3)); %Y force

plot(v3a(:,1),v3a(:,3)); %Y force

plot(v4a(:,1),v4a(:,3)); %Y force

legend("Fy 1","Fy 2","Fy 3","Fy 4");

title("Body Y Force State History");

xlabel("Time(seconds)");

ylabel("Y Force(N)");

print -append -bestfit -landscape -Ftimes:12 -dpsc plots.ps

However, the third plot resulting from this code begins to show problems:

figure 3; hold on; grid on;

plot(v1a(:,1),v1a(:,4)); %Z force

plot(v2a(:,1),v2a(:,4)); %Z force

plot(v3a(:,1),v3a(:,4)); %Z force

plot(v4a(:,1),v4a(:,4)); %Z force

legend("Fz 1","Fz 2","Fz 3","Fz 4");

title("Body Z Force State History");

xlabel("Time(seconds)");

ylabel("Z Force(N)");

print -append -bestfit -landscape -Ftimes:12 -dpsc plots.ps

In this third plot(see Fig3 pdf attached), all of the “z”s in the legend, title and ylabel function calls are missing from the print of the plot(not from the interactive plot in octave!).  As more plots are printed, the titles, ylabels and legends missing-characters problem seems to get worse.  Any ideas about what is going on?

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Les Lantz

lesl1@yahoo.com

Fig1.pdf
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Fig3.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

p.s.  The “.ps” file is opened on my iMac using the “preview” application.