[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #31317] Plot attributes not saved when printing to .eps file

[Bryan Usevitch]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31317>

                 Summary: Plot attributes not saved when printing to .eps
file
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: beuwinkle
            Submitted on: Tue 12 Oct 2010 07:53:29 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.2.3
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Octave allows the fontsize to be changed on plots.  However, when printing
these plots to an eps file, the changed attributes are not saved. 
Experimentation found that when printing to a postscript file, the changed
attributes were saved (see below for a reason why this didn't result in a good
work around).  Consider the following code:
fs = 18;
text(v(1,1)+2,v(2,1)+2.8,'y1','FontSize',fs)
text(v(1,2)+2.2,v(2,2)+3,'y2','FontSize',fs)
grid on
xlabel('x1','FontSize',fs);
ylabel('x2','Fontsize',fs);
set(gca,'Fontsize',fs)
print -dpsc test.ps
print -depsc2 test.eps

Viewing the test.eps file with gv showed that the fontsize was not saved as
18.  However, viewing test.ps shows that the fontsize was indeed changed to
18.  

Interestingly, the .ps output also gives a bounding box.  So I used the
following initially as a workaround:
print -dpsc test.eps
However, the problem is that the -dpsc does not give a tight bounding box
(there was a lot of white space around the figure).

The attached file gives a full working example.



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