From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Mar 22 09:33:17 2000
Subject: Re: gnuplot (Was: Re: New on the list : new plotting tool)
From: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:32:21 +0000

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> A late reply, but anyway...
> 
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:24:43PM -0600, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> > Hmm.  For a long time now, I've used the pslatex driver whenever I
> > wanted to generate plots for a paper or a talk.  I like being able to
> > use all the power of TeX for typesetting the labels.
> 
> I have used the ps driver together with PSFrag, a wonderful LaTeX package
> that allows the editing of any text string present in a PS file.  For more
> info, try:
> 
>     ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
> 
> --
> Rafael Laboissiere

And I use 'pstoedit' that convert a postscript image into several other
formats, including xfig and gnuplot. With 'xfig' I can then edit the
figure and than export it as pslatex. This way I can even change line
types, colors, etc.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1958/pstoedit/

Joao

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