Re: plotting help needed.

[James R. Phillips]

--- Prasenjit Kapat  wrote:

> Hi,
> I have to use Octave 2.1.50 on Fedora core 2, REMOTELY. I plot into a
> ps file then ftp the ps file to see the plots. But when I plot more
> than one graph on the same figure, it creates a new page in the ps
> file for doing so. Finally when I am done plotting some five graphs, I
> have a 5-page ps file, from which I have to extract the 5-th page for
> my purpose.
> [ page 1 has  graph 1;
>   page 2 has  graph 1 and graph 2;
>   page 3 has  graph 1 , graph 2 and graph 3;....
> ]
> The 'replot' doesn't help b/c I am working remotely and I do not want
> to pull up the gnuplot window. A sample code is like this:
> 
> x=[1 2 3]; y=[4 5 6];
> gset term postscript
> gset output "plots.ps";
> plot(x,y,"@12;graph 1;",-x,y,"@13;graph 2;",-x,-y,"@14;graph 3");
> closeplot()
> 
> what I want is just a one page ps file (rather than a 3 page one) with
> all the three graphs, so that I don't have to do the extraction
> process.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Kapat
> 
> 

If you want to put 3 plots on one page, probably the multiplot command is the
way to go.  Note that the replot command doesn't work on the entire plot
though, just on the individual subplots.  So you have to set the terminal and
output properly before using the multiplot command.



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