[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#814554: octave: Saving figure to a PNG or PDF file gives black plot area when using gnuplot graphics

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 01:13:56 +0300, Andrei Demekhov wrote:
> I obtain plots with fully black plot area when using gnuplot backend and
> saving figures to PNG or PDF files (by either saveas or print). It probably
> started to happen after upgrading to gnuplot5. It is pity because the
> gnuplot toolkit is superior to FLTK or QT with respect to special font and
> font effects (sub/superscripts) handling. Note that gnuplot
> itself/standalone works fine.
> 
> According to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42838, something similar (but only
> for PDFs) was discussed upstream and was considered fixed.

Yes, this is the same issue as the bug you reference. I have asked on
that bug report whether it could be applied to the next stable release.
Untested, but the patch looks simple enough to apply to the Debian
package to fix this incompatibility.

-- 
mike