From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan 5 13:58:42 2004 Subject: Re: plotting to Postscript doesn't work? From: Ada Cheng To: Bart Vandewoestyne cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:01:32 -0500 (EST) The following should do the trick. gset terminal postscript gset output "file.ps" replot Ada On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Bart Vandewoestyne wrote: > I'm trying to get my Octave to write it's figure output to Postscript > files (or any other output i can embed in a LaTeX document), but it > doesn't work. This is an example of what I'm trying to do: > > I start up Octave, and this gives me a nice, clean sinus-plot in an X1 > window: > > octave:2> t=[0:0.01:2*pi]; > octave:3> plot(t, sin(t)) > > Now I would like to have this plot in an output file sinus.ps, > therefore I follow the instructions that I came across while googling: > > octave:5> set term postscript > > -> Now a bunch of output scrolls up my screen, i guess it's the > Postscript language...? > > Next thing I do is define my output file: > > octave:6> set output "sinus.ps" > > -> Again a bunch of Postscript commands scrolls up my screen... > > And last but not least, i try to plot: > > octave:7> plot(t, sin(t)) > > I'm expecting a postscript file in my current working directory, but > no... nothing there: > > octave:9> ls *.ps > ls: *.ps: No such file or directory > > > What am I doing wrong here? > > The Octave version I'm using is GNU Octave, version 2.1.52 > (i386-pc-linux-gnu) on a Debian unstable box. > > > Regards, > Bart > > -- > Bart Vandewoestyne Bart.Vandewoestyne_at_pandora.be > Naamsesteenweg 328 bus 201 GSM: +32 (0)478 397 697 > B-3001 Heverlee http://osswin.sourceforge.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Theory is the general; experiments are the soldiers." (Leonardo da Vinci) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================================ Ada Cheng acheng at member dot ams dot org Assistant Professor http://www.kettering.edu/~acheng Department of Science and Mathematics Kettering University 1700 West Third Avenue Flint, Michigan 48504-4898 U.S.A. ============================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------