[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#478677: Bug#478677: Bug#478677: print('foo.pdf', '-dpdf') fails
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Wed Apr 30 13:15:16 UTC 2008
package octave3.0
tags 478677 confirmed
thanks
* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-04-30 13:21]:
> Am Mittwoch, den 30.04.2008, 12:10 +0200 schrieb Soeren Sonnenburg:
> > Package: octave3.0
> > Version: 1:3.0.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > to reproduce just do (note print('foo.ps','-dps') works):
> >
> > octave
> >
> > plot([1,2,3])
> > print('foo.pdf','-dpdf')
>
> gnuplot needs pdflib to produce PDF output. pdflib's license is
> non-free.
>
> Which raises the question: did this ever work?
>
> [looking through BTS ...] => #248426
This explains the problem, but I think that we still ought to fix print.m,
whose documentation ("help print") lists PDF as a possible output format and
yields the cryptic error message "unknown or ambiguous terminal type".
If I have some time next week I will try to create a patch for fixing this.
--
Rafael
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