[changeset-2] improved support for pdf output

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:26 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  8-Apr-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
> |
> | >> I tried the following with Matlab 2008b
> | > I thought about trying 2008b, but 2007b was handier.  The  
> underlying
> | > behavior does not seem to have changed, and I think you have done
> | > the right thing.  It does not appear that whatever replaces
> | > BoundingBox in
> | > PDF actually causes a problem.  I could display text within what
> | > seemed to
> | > be the "frame" for the PDF that I generated in Matlab.
> | > Tell me when you push this changeset.
> | >
> | > Michael
> |
> |
> | I've made changes that attempt to produce compatible behavior across
> | several terminals. I've tested pdf, ps, eps, jpeg, jpg, and png (I  
> had
> | the bitmaps implemented incorrectly ... I apologize to those who I
> | recall tried to get that point across over the last few weeks).
>
> | +      fprintf (plot_stream, sprintf ("%s\n", term_str));
>
> Why not
>
>  fprintf (plot_stream, "%s\n", term_str);
>
> ?

I'll fix that.

> | +      [status, output] = system ("which convert");
>
> Is "which" reliable on all systems?  Why not just try to run the
> convert command and see if it works?

There is no "which" in windows. Does anyone know of an equivalent that  
works for XP and Vista?

Ben