Re: Octave 3.5.92 snapshot available for ftp

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:02 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> 
>> > A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
>> > directory /gnu/octave:
>> >
>> >  48481042bdd5f924ccfc983916cd1e16  octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
>> >
>> >  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17958889 Jan 06 20:55 octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
>> >
>> > The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-5-92) in the Mercurial
>> > archive.
>> >
>> > Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
>> > purposes.  I do not consider them to be Octave releases.  If people
>> > think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
>> > can add a notice to the Octave startup message.
>> >
>> > Unless there are some serious problems with this snapshot, I would
>> > like to release it (or something very close to it) as 3.6.0 in the
>> > next few days.  Even if you have been building Octave regularly from
>> > the Mercurial archive, it would help if you could build from the
>> > snapshot and report any problems.
>> >
>> > jwe
>> 
>> I just noticed a problem with printing to eps-files while using the fltk 
>> toolkit.
>> 
>> I won't have time to look into the detail until tomorrow.
>> 
>> This may be a MacOS only problem. Try ...
>> 
>>        graphics_tollkit fltk
>>        close all
>>        peaks (10)
>>        print -depsc -tight test.eps
>> 
>> If I print to -dpdfwrite or don't include -tight, I get the expected result. 
>> The result I get is attached (a very small surf plot).
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> 
> On Ubuntu 10.04 using octave 3.5.92 it looks OK here. ie it is normal size.
> doug  

Thanks Doug.

I entered a bug report.

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35259

Ben