Re: Gnuplot and Aqua term

[Carlo de Falco]

On 25 Mar 2010, at 05:22, Liam Groener wrote:

> On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Jordan Ellis wrote:
>
> > When I upgraded to Octave 3.2.3 the problem disappeared-that is
> > the program accepted comments.
> >
> > However I now find that the program  explicitly  invokes AquaTerm  
> > when plotting
> > and that it does not have enough space on the plot figure to plot  
> > the title and the
> > x axis label.
> >
> > The 3.0.3  version did not invoke AquaTerm and had no problem  
> > plotting the
> > title and x axis label.  Any suggestions ?
>
> Well, one way to get X11 back as your graphics terminal is to issue  
> the command:
>
> export GNUTERM = x11
>
> before starting up octave. I would have sworn there was a way to do  
> this from within octave, but I can't find it now.

putenv ("GNUTERM", "x11")

> Personally, I prefer the looks of the plots made with Aquaterm. It's  
> true that labels and titles can plot outside the window (I think  
> this is fixed with the development version of gnuplot or when using  
> fltk with the development version of Octave. However, usually this  
> is important only when you want to share your plots with others. In  
> those cases it is convenient to "export" he plot by saving it to a  
> pdf with:
>   print <name>.pdf
> where <name> is your desired plot file name. The titles, et. al.  
> will show up in the pdf when you open it in, say, Preview. You can  
> then copy just the plot itself to the clipboard and paste it into a  
> memo document or whatever.
>
> Liam G.

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