Re: Automate print command on mac?

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:38 AM, rs-232 wrote:

> 
> Hi all, I need to automatically plot multiple separate arrays, and print them
> in a specific resolution. I can get octave to plot and print my arrays, but
> when I try to automate this by putting the process in a function and
> replacing the filename with an argument, octave saves the file as the
> argument name rather than its value and will overwrite the same file in
> subsequent iterations.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I have included my incredibly basic function:
> 
> 
> function y = testr2( arg0 )
>       start = 0
>       finish = 44100
>       y = wavread ("sound.wav", [start, finish]);
>       plot (y)
>       print -dpng "-S23215,500" arg0
>       arg0
>       y = 0
> endfunction 

Using the print command as a function will resolve the problem.

        print (gcf, "-dpng", "-S23215,500", arg0)

Ben