From help-request at octave dot org Thu Feb  3 12:56:55 2005
Subject: Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac)
From: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>, <ierms@criba.edu.ar>
CC: Octave_post <help at octave dot org>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:06:15 -0800

LaTeX =AD A document preparation system
My question: If I had LaTex installed on my iMac with OS 10.2.8 would it
take the place of MSWord X for producing my final document for submission t=
o
scientific journal. Or on my next Mac when Tiger comes out, LaTeX can take
the place of MSWord and I won't need it at all?

Using Octave/Gnuplot/AquaTerm I can save as pdf or eps. Current MS Word doe=
s
not fully support PDFs and creates a bitmap, therefore print quality is not
adequate. If I insert the EPS into MS Word, I can print with good quality
but cannot see the eps on the screen because I don't have/don't know how to
make an EPS file with Tiff or PICT preview.

So is LaTex the solution to my problem? I could also buy iWorks which
supports PDF and therefore won't rasterize (make a bit map) of my PDF files
that were created with AquaTerm.
Henry=20


on 2/3/05 7:11 AM, Quentin Spencer at qspencer at ieee dot org wrote:

> Rodrigo Santos wrote:
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>> I would like to copy a figure obtained using plot to an .eps format so I
>> can include it on latex file.
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> The easiest way to do this is using the "print" command in the
> octave-forge package (http://octave.sf.net). It is very similar to the
> print function in Matlab. Without this function, you can do something
> like this:
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> gset term postscript
> gset output filename.eps
> replot
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> There are additional options for the first command that are in the
> gnuplot documentation.
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