.eps file displays with gv but will not print

John W. Eaton jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Wed May 14 01:14:46 CDT 2008


On 13-May-2008, Bob Odom wrote:

| I think I found the problem, and it must be in either octave or gnuplot.
| 
| There is a line in the CUPS error log for a non-printing file:
| 
| E [13/May/2008:15:03:13 -0700] [Job 818] No %%Pages: comment in header!
| 
| I looked at a file with no problems, and saw that directly below
| %%EndProlog  is the line
| %%Page: 1 1
| 
| I manually edited the non-printing file and added the line "%%Page: 1 1"
| directly below the "%%EndProlog" statement. That file now prints.
| 
| So the problem is in the generation of the PostScript. This seems to be
| a genuine bug, but is it an octave problem or a gnuplot problem?

It must be in gnuplot because gnuplot generates the PostScript, not
Octave.

jwe


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