From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 20 01:20:25 1998
Subject: Graphics in Octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Robin M. Braun" <Robin dot Braun at eng dot uct dot ac dot za>
Cc: <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:18:29 -0600

On 20-Jan-1998, Robin M. Braun <Robin dot Braun at eng dot uct dot ac dot za> wrote:

| I need to get Octave to create a jpg or gif file (via gnuplot). I can
| think of piping a pbm or eps file into a converter, but I believe
| there a cleaner way.

What's wrong with a pipe?

If you have the portable bitmap tools, you can do this:

   gset term pbm
   gset output "|ppmtogif > file.gif"
   plot (...)

Translating a PostScript file to gif or jpeg formats can be done in a
similar way if you have a conversion program that can act as a filter.

jwe