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

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil at gmail.com> [2008-08-08 16:50]:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I am just curious: which version of gnuplot are you using?  I have 4.2.3-1
> here which does not provide the pdfcairo terminal. 
> 

Hm, I forgot that I installed a gnuplot CVS version...., so maybe that's 
why I have pdfcairo support and you don't. But now I remember, I did it 
to get PDF support and also the for-loop support in the plot command, 
which is quite cool.

I needed the for-loop support because the number of functions to plot 
would be determined by gnuplot at run-time.

Since gnuplot in Debian doesn't even offer the pdfcairo terminal yet, I 
will send a bug-report to Octave upstream.

Best regards,
Torquil Sørensen