[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#478677: Bug#478677: Bug#478677: print('foo.pdf', '-dpdf') fails

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Thu May 1 08:59:19 UTC 2008


On 30/04/08 15:15 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-04-30 13:21]:
> > 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".

To be fair, it prints a line with a pointer right at the "pdf" part.

> If I have some time next week I will try to create a patch for fixing this.

How to fix it? I think dropping the 'pdf' part from print()'s help
string should suffice, shouldn't it?





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