Re: Plotting data into file

[Michael Creel]

On Monday 13 June 2005 16:57, Michael Kopp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am about writing a script which automatically plots data into
> eps-files. I am using "gset outpout <filename>" to designate the output
> file. However, this seems to work only if I give the name ouf the
> outputfile directly as a string, but not if I give it as an octave
> string variable. Here is an example:
>
> str = "test.eps";
> gset terminal postscript eps;
> gset output str;              % this does not work
> plot((1:10)', (1:10)'/2);
> gset output "anothertest.eps";        % this works
> plot((1:10)', (1:10)'/2);
> gset terminal X11;
> gset output;
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA,
>
> Michael.
>

A possibility using print() from octave-forge is
outfile="myoutfile.eps";
plot(rand(10,1));
print(outfile, "-depsc2");

M.



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