From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Nov 12 15:53:48 1997
Subject: Re: Line colors and styles 
From: Andy Meyer <ameyer at uiuc dot edu>
To: Steven N Harp <snh2 at psu dot edu>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:52:40 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Steven N Harp wrote:

> Octave and gnuplot users,
> When I use octave and produce graphical output, I view my plots in a
> x11 window and I print out my plots in ps form. gnuplot uses different
> colors for an x11 window and a ps files and the ps line colors also
> have a line style associated with them. I would like to know if there
> is a method for getting the same colors, whether a x11 window or ps
> file. I suspect that this would require a change in the trm files in
> gnuplot. Also is there a method to control the line style for the ps
> terminal? Is it possible to get a solid red, blue,cyan etc line when a
> postscript terminal is used ?
> 
> I guess one last question I have is that if the things I want to do
> above are possible in gnuplot, would they be possible in octave.

The answer here is to:
gset postscript solid

Found a great program for viewing the ps plots called gv located at:
 http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/
Much better that ghostscript, easier to use X interface, auto updates,
window zooming, and much more.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 



Andy Meyer
ameyer at uiuc dot edu