[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#494324: octave3.0: Strange output with pdfcairo print device

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

Package: octave3.0
Version: 1:3.0.1-6
Severity: normal

It is very good that the Debian gnuplot now has pdfcairo output, but it 
doesn't seem to work perfectly with octave. The following works fine in 
gnuplot:

set terminal pdfcairo
set output "plot.pdf"
plot [0:1] x

and it gives a very nice pdf. The pdf page size fits perfectly around 
the plot.

When I try print("plot.pdf", "-dpdfcairo") after making a plot in 
octave, I get a large portrait a4 or letter format page, with the
plot at the bottom. In addition, the file will be called 
"pdfcairo:plot.pdf". When I use the other print devices, e.g. eps
or png, then the output page format is correct.

Best regards,
Torquil Sørensen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (650, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.080303-2 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.0 depends on:
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2             Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.18.2-7          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfftw3-3             3.1.2-3.1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-8         GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3           4.3.1-8           Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0               4.29-2            linear programming kit with intege
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.6-0 1.6.6-4           Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-1           library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5            5.6+20080804-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3               7.6-2.1           Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libqhull5              2003.1-10lenny1   calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-8           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.1.0   3.1.0-3           collection of libraries for comput
ii  texinfo                4.11.dfsg.1-4     Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages octave3.0 recommends:
pn  gnuplot                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  libatlas3gf-base              <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages octave3.0 suggests:
pn  octave3.0-doc                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.0-emacsen             <none>     (no description available)
pn  octave3.0-headers             <none>     (no description available)
ii  octave3.0-htmldoc             1:3.0.1-6  HTML documentation on the GNU Octa
pn  octave3.0-info                <none>     (no description available)

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