Example plot in Manual lacks text

Ben Abbott bpabbott at mac.com
Mon Apr 6 17:47:51 CDT 2009


On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:

> No, I get:
> octave:1> plot([1:100])
> octave:2> print("test01.pdf")
>
> gnuplot> set terminal pdf enhanced size 8.5,11 ;
>                     ^
>        line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set  
> terminal' for a list
>
>        line 0: No terminal defined
>
>
> gnuplot> plot "-" binary format='%float64' record=100 using ($1): 
> ($2) axes x1y1 title "" with lines linestyle 1 ;
>             ^
>        line 0: use 'set term' to set terminal type first
>
>
> gnuplot> @
>        ^
>        line 0: invalid character @
>
> octave:3>
> =================================
> This is on Fedora 10 Linux.  And, it seems to happen always.   
> gnuplot 4.2.3.
> gnuplot
> set terminal
>
> does not list pdf!
>

Do you see pdfcairo in the list of devices?

Also, I assume this is where "convert" is intended to produce a pdf- 
file from an eps-file?

Ben




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