Re: plotting to Postscript doesn't work?

[Ada Cheng]

The following should do the trick.

gset terminal postscript
gset output "file.ps"
replot

Ada

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:

> I'm trying to get my Octave to write it's figure output to Postscript
> files (or any other output i can embed in a LaTeX document), but it
> doesn't work.  This is an example of what I'm trying to do:
>
> I start up Octave, and this gives me a nice, clean sinus-plot in an X1
> window:
>
> octave:2> t=[0:0.01:2*pi];
> octave:3> plot(t, sin(t))
>
> Now I would like to have this plot in an output file sinus.ps,
> therefore I follow the instructions that I came across while googling:
>
> octave:5> set term postscript
>
> -> Now a bunch of output scrolls up my screen, i guess it's the
> Postscript language...?
>
> Next thing I do is define my output file:
>
> octave:6> set output "sinus.ps"
>
> -> Again a bunch of Postscript commands scrolls up my screen...
>
> And last but not least, i try to plot:
>
> octave:7> plot(t, sin(t))
>
> I'm expecting a postscript file in my current working directory, but
> no... nothing there:
>
> octave:9> ls *.ps
> ls: *.ps: No such file or directory
>
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> The Octave version I'm using is GNU Octave, version 2.1.52
> (i386-pc-linux-gnu) on a Debian unstable box.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bart
>
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 Ada Cheng                              address@hidden
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