print('test.emf', '-demf'); does not work on octave-MSVC when gnuplot is backend

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Hello
>
> print('test.emf', '-demf'); does not work on octave-MSVC when gnuplot is backend
>
> octave-3.0.1.exe:3> print('test.emf', '-demf');
> Error: terminal "emf" does not support continuous colors.
> This is due to gnuplot on MSVC is gnuplot 4.2.2
>
> Octave on cygwin (Macro's octave not mine) uses gnuplot 4.2.3.
> I have confirmed print('test.emf', '-demf'); worked correct.
>
> Now official verion of gnuplot is 4.2.3.
> Why the gnuplot 4.2.2 is still used for octave for MSVC?

Hmmmm, let me see... Probably because I don't have that
much time to follow the development progress of every single
octave dependency and do an update as soon as they appear.
And also most probably because I never used EMF as image
format under Windows.

Michael.