Re: What does imagesc.m need?

[Joe Koski]

After some experimentation, I found xv and downloaded it from Fink. Now I'm
getting TIFF plots in a Preview window. Should this dependency be added to
the installation process for octave-2.1.50 on Fink?

Joe Koski

on 2/27/04 3:05 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:

> I'm trying to get image.m and imagesc.m working on my Mac OS X 10.2.8 with
> octave 2.1.50 installed, and with all the compatible octave-forge routines
> available, but not in the right place for easy access. I drag the
> octave-forge routines that I need to the necessary folder. I have the MacOSX
> versions of figure.m and image.m local to the other .m routines, and
> figure.m seems to work OK.
> 
> When I try to use imagesc.m, I get only a blank window, and no plot. In
> looking at image.m, I see lines like the following:
> 
> ## Start the viewer.  Try xv, then xloadimage.
> 
> xv = sprintf ("xv -expand %f %s", zoom, ppm_name);
> 
> xloadimage = sprintf ("xloadimage -zoom %f %s", zoom*100, ppm_name);
> 
> ## ImageMagick:
> im_display = sprintf ("display -geometry %f%% %s", zoom*100, ppm_name);
> 
> ## MacOSX:
> mac = sprintf("convert -geometry %f%% %s %s.tiff;open %s.tiff", zoom*100,
> ppm_name,ppm_name,ppm_name);
> 
> I can't find routines like xv and xloadimage in any obvious places. The
> routine convert is located in /sw/bin.
> 
> What routines am I missing? Where do I get and place them? I tried
> installing imagemagick from Fink, but that didn't seem to help.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Joe Koski
> 
> 
> 
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