Re: Can't print a simple example with tikz in Octave 3.8.0

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 19, 2014, at 5:42 PM, byron.hawkins <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sorry, I don't understand. I tried to set the graphics toolkit to gnuplot
> like this, but got the same result:
> 
>    graphics_toolkit("gnuplot")
>    X = [ 1 ];
>    data = rand (1, 1);
>    c.standalone = '1';
>    c.axistype = 'semilogyaxis';
>    c.xlabel = 'X Axis';
>    c.ylabel = 'Y Axis';
>    c.title = 'Plot title';
>    c.runtex = 1;
>    p.x = X;
>    p.y = data;
>    p.color = 'red';
>    p.mark = 'o';
>    p.legend = 'Data';
>    P{1} = p;
>    print point.tex
> 
>    error: __fltk_print__: A(I,J): column index out of bounds; value 2 out
> of bound 0
>    error: called from:
>    error:  
> /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.0/m/plot/util/private/__fltk_print__.m at line
> 157, column 8
>    error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.0/m/plot/util/print.m at line 422,
> column 14
>    error:   /mnt/urba/workspace/temp/octave/test.m at line 20, column 1
> 
> It is still trying to print with fltk. Might there be different toolkit
> settings for "plot" and "print"? Thanks for your help.

Try ...

        close all
        graphics_toolkit gnuplot

... or ...

        graphics_toolkit (gcf (), "gnuplot")

... and then render the plot and use print() to produce the tikz file.

        plot (rand (3))
        print -ptikz foo.tex

Ben