From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Feb  3 13:38:48 1997
Subject: Output from Gnuplot to xfig
From: Mario Storti <mstorti at galileo dot unl dot edu dot ar>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
cc: mstorti at galileo dot unl dot edu dot ar
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 16:49:07 -0300


Hi Octavers!

This question is  more specific to Gnuplot, but  I hope that there  is
people in the list that can help me.

I want to take the output of the plots  of Octave and "edit" them with
xfig.  I looked up  in the man page  and  interactive help for Gnuplot
with no  success for a "xfig terminal"  BUT... yesterday,  I found the
following in the "help set size" of Gnuplot:

>>        G N U P L O T
>>        Linux version 3.5
>>        patchlevel 3.50.1.17, 27 Aug 93
>>        last modified Fri Aug 27 05:21:33 GMT 1993
>>
>>        Copyright(C) 1986 - 1993   Colin Kelley, Thomas Williams
>>
>>        Send comments and requests for help to
>>info-gnuplot at dartmouth dot edu
>>        Send bugs, suggestions and mods to bug-gnuplot at dartmouth dot edu
>>
>>Terminal type set to 'x11'
>>gnuplot> help set size
>> The `set size` command scales the displayed size of the plot.  On some
>> terminals, changing the size of the plot will result in text being
>> 
(...)
>> For the LaTeX and Fig terminals the default size (scale factor 1,1)
                     ^^^
>> is 5 inches wide by 3 inches high. The big Fig terminal (`bfig`) is 7
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> inches wide by 5 inches high. The postscript default is landscape mode
>> 10 inches wide and 7 inches high.
>> Note that the size of the plot includes the space used by the labels;
>> the plotting area itself is smaller.
 
It seems to me that this  "Fig" and "bfig"  terminals to whom the help
section makes reference are related to xfig.

Does anyone  know  something  about this,  or   another way  to handle
Gnuplot output with xfig?

TIA

Mario

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