Re: Export Plot as EMF

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-May-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| John Hedengren wrote:
| > I recently upgraded to 2.9.5 from 2.9.4.  The functions that I use to 
export 
| > plots, particularly EMF, JPG, and EPS are now gone (I received warning 
| > messages before that they would be removed in a future version).
| >
| > gset term postscript eps color
| > gset output "name.eps"
| > replot
| >
| > gset term emf
| > gset output "name.emf"
| > replot
| >
| > My keyword searches aren't coming up with any functions that replace the 
| > export of plots created with the plot().  I know there are other plotting 
| > packages that I can use, such as GRACE, that may have this functionality 
but 
| > I would prefer to deal with Octave's native plotting functions.
|
| They were finally deleted after a year of warnings and the alternatives
| 
| __gnuplot_plot__    __gnuplot_replot__  __gnuplot_show__
| __gnuplot_raw__     __gnuplot_set__     __gnuplot_splot__
| 
| being available, to allow the matlab compatible gplot to be committed..

Although these are the new names, you probably want to use the print
function instead of these internal names.
The print function will work for eps but not emf.  It should be easy
to fix that, so if you need it, please implement it and submit a
patch.

Thanks,

jwe