gnuplot font messages

[Ben Abbott]

This problem has been fixed in the gnuplot sources. See below.

	https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009-May/012397.html

Ben

On May 31, 2009, at 6:42 PM, mnwhite wrote:

> I have been getting similar messages for all sorts of simple plot  
> commands
> when using Octave 3.0.5 with gnuplot 4.3, particularly when I try to  
> save
> the figures with print(...).  Any text on a figure, including axes  
> labels,
> tick marks, figure title, or figure annotations generate similar  
> warnings
> and sometimes crashes.  The terminal warning tends to be of this sort:
>
> error: gnuplot (as of v4.2) only supports 2D filled patches
> error: called from `__go_draw_axes__' in file
> /opt/local/share/octave/3.0.5/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m near line 538,
> column 4
>
> The code for my current project was originally written for Matlab  
> and then
> modified slightly so that it runs properly on Octave as well.   
> Everything
> runs fine on Octave 3.0.1 with gnuplot 4.2.1, but is disastrous in  
> the most
> recent version.  The release notes describe the recent versions as  
> simple
> bug fixes, but it seems it has introduced many more bugs than were  
> fixed
> (e.g. the new version completely ignores LineStyle specifications  
> when using
> plot(...)).  I have observed this both on a Mac and PC.
>
> Have others experienced such debilitating problems when using the  
> newest
> version?  Any assistance you can provide would be most appreciated.
>
>
> Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>> Can someone confirm the following behavior. When I type the following
>> commands into gnuplot
>>
>> set terminal x11 enhanced
>> set xrange [0.00e+00:1.00e+00];
>> set ytics ( "{0}" 0,  "{0.5}" 0.5,  "{1}" 1,  "{1.5}" 1.5,  "{2}" 2)
>> font "Helvetica,14";
>> plot 2*x
>>
>> I get the messages below.
>>
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>> setting font to Helvetica,14
>>
>> I haven't seen any complaints from Octave users yet, so I thought I
>> should confirm its not just my installation.
>>
>> By the way, if the curly brackets are removed, there are no messages.
>>
>> set terminal x11 enhanced
>> set xrange [0.00e+00:1.00e+00];
>> set ytics ( "0" 0,  "0.5" 0.5,  "1" 1,  "1.5" 1.5,  "2" 2) font
>> "Helvetica,14";
>> plot 2*x
>>
>> Ethan/Petr, is gnuplot expected to behave this way? If so, can these
>> messages be suppressed without suppressing everything sent to stderr?
>>
>> Ben
>>