Empty page

[Koichi Hashimoto]

I am using Octave 2.0.11 and Gnuplot pre 3.6 patchlevel 340 with the
following script:

function phrd (filename)

# usage: phrd (filename)
#
# Writes a eps file of a plot.
#
# See also: plot, semilogx, semilogy, loglog, polar, mesh, contour,
#           bar, stairs, gplot, gsplot, replot, xlabel, ylabel, title

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("phrd (filename)");
  endif

  if (isstr (filename))
    command = sprintf ("gset terminal post eps \"Times-Roman\" 22") ;
    eval (command);
    command = sprintf ("gset output \"%s.eps\"", filename);
    eval (command);
    replot
    gset output "/dev/null"
    clear
    gset terminal x11
    replot
  else
    error ("phrd: text must be a string");
  endif

endfunction

>From 2.0.11, an empty page is generated before the plot page.  In fact
the eps file contains the following lines just after %%EndProlog.

gnudict begin
gsave
50 50 translate
0.050 0.050 scale
0 setgray
newpath
(Times-Roman) findfont 220 scalefont setfont
stroke
grestore
end
showpage

Doing the same thing from gnuplot does not generate an empty page.
Are there any workarounds for this problem? 

Koichi Hashimoto
  Department of Systems Engineering,
  Okayama University
  address@hidden