Re: ps files read under octave

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Cecile Limborg
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> Congratulations for all the tools developed so far.
> I can now use Octave for most of my data processing.
>
> I have a question related to loading image files.
> I converted a gif file into ps, since I believed that octave could load
> it . My ps file is correctly written, and reads well under ghostview.
> However it does not read with octave either with loadimage or image_viewer.

This is an odd thing to do.
You should just imread() the gif file.
Postscript is not really an image format. Imread will try to read postscript
by converting it back into some bitmap, and you probably going to loose
some during this back-and-force conversions.

Dmitri.
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