Re: Printing and Exporting scatter3

[Stephen H. Dawson]

OK. Let's see what things look like when my distribution repository gets
to v4.0. I can live with things in the mean time.

Much appreciated.

Thank You,
Stephen H. Dawson
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/shdcs


On 06/14/2016 07:18 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:46:58 -0400, Stephen H. Dawson wrote:
>> Thanks, Mike.
>>
>> I tried printing from command window. I realized I needed to install
>> epstk. I have now installed and loaded epstk even though it is not
>> showing in pkg list
> What are you using from epstk? Nothing you've shown here so far needs
> it.
>
> But assuming you do need it, it's not a "package" in the sense that
> Octave's pkg command knows about. The Debian package octave-epstk just
> installs a bunch of m-files into your site path so they can just be run.
>
>> The GUI, though experimental, exports and prints the gray bars at the
>> top and bottom...the menu and status bars. I realize I am not on the
>> latest release so this may have been resolved.
> I don't know, I've never seen any Octave printed figures that include
> the menu or status bars. Maybe you are using some other method to export
> a figure to an image that is really just taking a screen capture.
> Octave's print command doesn't do that, though.
>
>> These syntax examples do generate output.
>>
>> print -djpg figure_name.jpg
>>
>> print -solid figure_name.pdf
>>
>>
>> saveas (1, "figure_name.png");
>>
>> saveas (1, "figure_name.jgp");
>>
>> saveas (1, "figure_name.eps");
>>
>>
>>
>> However, there are no grid lines on the Z axis contrary to the file
>> example you shared.
> I don't know why that is, possibly a bug that has been fixed, or
> possibly the versions of OpenGL and/or gl2ps on your system.
>
>> Also, the title is not wrapping when printing or exporting but does when
>> rendered on screen.
>>
>> title ({'TOP TITLE', 'Bottom Title'},"fontweight", "bold");
> This feature does not work in Octave up to and including 4.0, but is
> implemented on the development branch for a future 4.2 release of
> Octave.
>