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updated print.m


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: updated print.m
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:22:13 -0400

On 10-Apr-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| I've pushed a changeset that addresses some of the troubles reported  
| for printing, and have tried to cc all that reported problems.
| 
| With this changeset in place, only postscript and pdf output are  
| assumed to target a printed page. All other outputs (eps, emf, png,  
| etc) will render an image the size indicated by the figure's  
| paperposition property.
| 
| Regarding pdf output, some linux variants do not have a "pdf" terminal  
| included. In the event gnuplot does not directly support pdf output a  
| check is made to see if "convert" is present. If so, a postscript page  
| is produced and "convert" is used to render the desired pdf output.
| 
| I've also updated the help text  for print.m and made some changes to  
| clarify the code.

Does calling convert work properly on Windows systems?  Do we want the
run-time dependency on ImageMagick?  Would it be better to depend on
ghostscript instead?

jwe


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