[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58702] emf format no longer works for printing 2

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Follow-up Comment #20, bug #58702 (project octave):

"print: 'pstoedit' is required for specified output format, but binary is not
available in PATH" (octave installed via snap)

error is probably an issue with snap package. 

Having said that, I think we should drop emf format. 
People who really need it can save to ps/sv/pdf and use 
other tools to convert them to emf.

Currently conversion to emf depends on 
ps2edit and ghostscript versions. 
In particular, with a recent ghostscript, pstoedit cannot 
convert from pdf to fig. From http://www.pstoedit.net/ :

<<<
>From version 9.56.0 on GhostScript will probably have a different way of
rendering PDF files - see https://ghostscript.com/pdfi.html - and that will
break the mechanism used by pstoedit. For a certain time, the old way of
reading PDF files will still be included - and then pstoedit could use that
legacay mode. But in the longer term, even that will be dropped to my current
information.
After that a PDF file will have to be converted to PostScript before it can be
processed by pstoedit.
>>>

I can confirm that this is indeed the case at least on my computers (fedora
and centos). 

Dmitri.
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