From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb  4 21:15:57 2005
Subject: Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac)
From: "John B. Thoo" <jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us>
To: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
Cc: Octave_post <help at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:08:23 -0800

Hi.  I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but here is a good place=20=

to check up on (La)TeX on the Mac.

Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
            & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Post: <mailto:MacOSX-TeX at email dot esm dot psu dot edu>

Cheers.
---John.


On Feb 3, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> LaTeX =96 A document preparation system
> My question: If I had LaTex installed on my iMac with OS 10.2.8 would=20=

> it
> take the place of MSWord X for producing my final document for=20
> submission to
> scientific journal. Or on my next Mac when Tiger comes out, LaTeX can=20=

> 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=20
> Word does
> not fully support PDFs and creates a bitmap, therefore print quality=20=

> is not
> adequate. If I insert the EPS into MS Word, I can print with good=20
> quality
> but cannot see the eps on the screen because I don't have/don't know=20=

> 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=20=

> files
> that were created with AquaTerm.
> Henry
>
>
> on 2/3/05 7:11 AM, Quentin Spencer at qspencer at ieee dot org wrote:
>
>> Rodrigo Santos wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to copy a figure obtained using plot to an .eps format=20=

>>> so I
>>> can include it on latex file.
>>>
>>>
>> 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:
>>
>> gset term postscript
>> gset output filename.eps
>> replot
>>
>> There are additional options for the first command that are in the
>> gnuplot documentation.=



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