Re: Octave Gnuplot export as LaTeX file

[Ben Abbott]

On May 24, 2014, at 9:31 PM, Hannibal Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2014-05-25 2:15 GMT+02:00 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
> 
>> On May 24, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Hannibal Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Community
>>> 
>>> I am a LaTeX-user and I know how to make graphs with gnuplot in LaTex with 
>>> the usepackage "tikz". But I it would be so much easier to make plots in 
>>> Octave and export it as LaTeX code so I can use it in LaTeX.
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> hannapsta
>> 
>> Assuming you have a recent version of Octave, the "tikz" device will provide 
>> tikz output when using gnuplot.
>> 
>>        plot (rand (3))
>>        print -dtikz test.tikz
>> 
>> Ben
> thank you very much :) ... but when I use your command I get this: "warning: 
> print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> Some output formats are not available.
> warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
> Some output formats are not available."
> 
> What to do?

The warning is not related to producing tikz output.

To resolve the warnings, you'll need to install epstool and transfig, which are 
used to produce output in other formats.

Ben