saving as .pdf files

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 30.08.2008, at 03:24, help-octave-request at octave.org wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:43:41 -0700 (PDT)
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>  How do I save my plots as .pdf files in Octave. I normally save  
> as .eps. I need the .pdf for use in LaTeX.
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> Thanks
> Asha


It depends on your gnuplot. If your gnuplot has support for pdf  
output, you might be able to use the following:

print('myfigure.pdf','-dpdf')

To find out if your gnuplot has pdf support, run gnuplot and type  
'set terminal' to see a list of supported terminals (=output formats).

If your gnuplot does not have pdf support save the figure as an eps  
and then convert it to pdf outside of gnuplot. If you're on Linux (or  
on somethin similar such as Mac OS X) you might already have the  
ps2pdf program. Also, LaTeX may be able to convert eps files to pdf  
on its own using the epstopdf package ( \usepackage{epstopdf} ). This  
is my preferred way of using Octave plots in LaTeX.

Matthias