[Pkg-octave-devel] Wrong octave/gnuplot plot output

[Mike Miller]

Hi Marco, I was involved in both of the links you reference, which are
two separate problems.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Marco Mattiolo wrote:
> Hi you all Octave and gnuplot maintainers,
> and thank you for maintaining such science apps in Debian!
>
> I'm having some trouble with plotting in Octave on Wheezy, and cannot
> understand which package
> (octave, gnuplot, or one of their dependencies) is to blame.
>
> With
> print -dpng octave36.png
> I get that ugly font that doesn't even fit in the image's area,
> while on the popup plot window, right font is used, but wrong size.
>
> The same command, in Octave under Squeeze gave the octave32.png result which
> is, according to me,
> the right one.
>
> Probably this problem got already reported on
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36052 ,

I posted a solution to the problem on that bug report, is that not
sufficient for your needs?

No matter which font Octave uses by default, it will not fit
everyone's needs.  If you care about which fonts and font sizes are
used in your plots, you should add those settings to ~/.octaverc.

> (please take a look also here
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2012-March/027240.html
> )
> but it isn't sure which package gave rise to this problem, in order to fix
> it.

This is not the same problem as yours.  My problem in that thread was
not being able to produce plots at all, but the bug has nothing to do
with Octave.  I ended up reporting the real bug to the ghostscript
package [1].

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662892

-- 
mike