[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37053] Saveas & Print error when saving as .emf

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #37053 (project octave):

This bug is fairly complicated, and not worth resolving for the 4.0 release.

The first problem is that pstoedit, the first command in a pipeline chain,
fails to run with 
 

*** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 6


Searching the web this seems to be because the base library file msys-1.0.dll
was not compiled to be position independent.  I downloaded a rebase.exe
utility and executed 


cd C:\Octave\Octave-3.9.1+\bin>
rebase -b 0x30000000 msys-1.0.dll 


This allows the pstoedit command to run.  When I do


pstoedit.exe -f fix tst.ps > tst.fig


the command apparently succeeds.  But if you look at the file it actually
contains an error message.  The error message says the fig file format is not
supported.  In fact, the range of file formats is incredibly small.


Unsupported output format fig
Available formats :
        psf:                    .fps:   Flattened PostScript (no curves)        
(built-in)
-------------------------------------------
        ps:                     .spsc:  Simplified PostScript with curves       
(built-in)
-------------------------------------------
        debug:                  .dbg:   for test purposes       (built-in)
-------------------------------------------
        dump:                   .dbg:   for test purposes (same as debug)       
(built-in)
-------------------------------------------
        gs:                     .gs:    any device that GhostScript provides - 
use gs:format, e.g.
gs:pdfwrite     (built-in)
-------------------------------------------
        ps2ai:                  .ai:    Adobe Illustrator via ps2ai.ps of 
GhostScript   (built-in)
-------------------------------------------


On linux, using pstoedit -help I and extracting the reference to fig


       plot-fig:               .fig:   fig  via GNU libplot   
(/usr/lib/pstoedit/libp2edrvlplot.so)
This driver supports the following additional options: (specify using -f
"format:-option1 -option2")
[          plotformat    : string        : plotutil format to generate]


This seems to difficult, and too inconsequential, to solve for the 4.0
release.

However, if we get around to it it seems that we need to compile msys with a
position independent flag and then we needto check about adding libplot
support to MXE Octave.  I've added John D. to the CC list just so he knows
about this issue.





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