Re: Special|backslash (\) characters are not interpreted when printing to PDF

[tomdylan]

Hello Ben,

looks like you will be my rescue... thank you!

while posting was made on a windows system (WIN7). However I have now
installed octave (3.8.1) on a linux (opensuse 13.1) and I got exactly the
same results: The octave plots are quite OK, however the PDF prints do not
consider the special characters even after adding:
set (findall (gcf (), "-property", "interpreter"), "interpreter", "TeX") 

There are some warnings:
/
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
/

In respect to the toolkit, this is what I get:

>> graphics_toolkit ()
ans = fltk

I am not sure if ghostscript plays a role but if I ask for the path in
octave I do not get any information about the gs_path
(ghostscript has been installed under /usr/share/ghostscript/).

It seems that transferring the octave results into PDF requires quite some
understanding of gnu plot, which I definitely have not....

Tom



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