From help-request at octave dot org Sun Feb 6 21:55:42 2005 Subject: Re: black and white printable graphs From: "Henry F. Mollet" To: NZG , Octave_post Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:06:18 -0800 1. You've picked color brown. The B/W printer may print this color so faintly that you cannot see it. I believe it's blue = 3 which comes out the least faint on a B/W printer. I have no idea why different colors print differently on B/W printer. 2. Black requires a patch as per my same question a little while ago but I don't remember which m file had to be patched. After the patch, it will be octave:10> plot (rand(5),"- at k0") Henry 2/6/05 2:30 PM, NZG at ngustavson at emacinc dot com wrote: > Currently when I generate graphs I use the octave-forge print utility to > create jpg's and then import them into PDF's > > i.e. > plot(n,(ylow+yhigh),"^;;6"); > title('y(n)'); > xlabel('n'); > ylabel('y'); > print('graph5.jpg','-djpg') > > I've discovered, however, that the colored lines of plot utility do not show > up at all on my black and white printer. > > I have also discovered that the Octave plot utility doesn't seem to be able to > generate black lines. > > Am I missing something? > How is this typically done? > > thx, > NZG. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------