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Re: save a plot to PDF?
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Henry F. Mollet |
Subject: |
Re: save a plot to PDF? |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:34:35 -0700 |
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This may be a loaded question but I truly don't understand. If it is so easy
to save a graph as pdf or eps using AquaTerm on a Mac, why is this so
difficult on other platforms. Well perhaps platform is the wrong word
because I would have to use the same route as is being discussed if I use
X11 on my iMac.
Henry
on 9/29/05 11:27 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov at address@hidden wrote:
> Paul Kienzle wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2005, at 1:49 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>>> On 29-Sep-2005, Jake wrote:
>>>
> ...
>>> | Anyone know how to save an Octave plot as a PDF?
>>>
>>> Save as postscript and use epstopdf?
>>>
>>> Use
>>>
>>> __gnuplot_set__ term pdf
>>> __gnuplot_set__ output "foo.pdf"
>>> replot
>>>
> ...
>>
>> Paul Kienzle <address@hidden>
>> * plot/print.m: Add support for PDF output.
>>
>
>
> Gnuplot pdf terminal relies on pdflite library which (at least
> as far as I can tell) is not GPL compatible. As a result
> many distributions will not have it enabled.
>
> Quality of pdf terminal is not as good (in my opinion)
> as quality of postscript terminal.
>
> So, at this moment I usually recommend to people postscript to pdf
> route.
>
> The drawback is that it adds yet another dependence (on my
> system epstopdf is part of tetex distribution), so perhaps
> ps2pdf would be better (this one is part of ghostscript,
> but that dependence is already here).
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dmitri.
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