Re: printing plots

[John Mark BEAUMONT]

Hi Steve,
        That's he best suggestion I've had so far,

and has gone someway to confirming my suspicions ...


That Octave/Gnuplot does not really support printing to paper.


Cheers Mark_B




Steve C. Thompson wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On 05 Dec 05 11:07AM, John Mark BEAUMONT wrote:
>
> > How do I get a paper printout from Octave/gnuplot?
>
>
> To add some ideas ...
>
> The way I use Octave for plotting is as follows:
>
>   1) Save data in a plain text file
>     
>        tmp = [x, y];
>        save -text 'data' tmp
>
>   2) Use gnuplot to plot the data and save the output as a LaTeX
>      file
>
>        set term pslatex monochrome dashed rotate 8
>
>   3) Then input the LaTeX file into my main LaTeX source
>
> This system works well for me.  It is a bit involved but
> generates nice results.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Steve



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