Re: [changeset] printing multipage postscript files

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > > > Please check that this works are you expect. I've tested the  
> > > > three examples
> > > > below on Mac OSX with no problems.
> > > >
> > > > surf(peaks)
> > > > print -dps append.ps
> > > > sombrero (25)
> > > > print -dps -append append.ps
> > > >
> > > > surf(peaks)
> > > > print -dpdf append.pdf
> > > > sombrero (25)
> > > > print -dpdf -append append.pdf
> > > >
> > > > surf(peaks)
> > > > print -dps append.ps
> > > > rename ("appdend.ps", "append.pdf");
> > > > sombrero (25)
> > > > print -dpdf -append append.pdf
> > > >
> > > > The last one I hadn't expected to work, but ghostscript handled  
> > > > it nicely.
> > >
> > > With postscript, it works well. (The option is really "-append".)
> > >
> > > However, appending to pdf fails on my system:
> > >
> > > x=1:100;
> > > plot (x,x)
> > > print -dpdf z.pdf
> > > plot (x,-x)
> > > print -dpdf z.pdf -append
> > > plot (x,x.*x, x,x+20)
> > > print -dpdf z.pdf -append
> > >
> > > However
> > > gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=new.pdf \
> > > z1.pdf z2.pdf -c quit
> > > works OK, so there seems to be a some small mistake in the patch.  
> > > Can you
> > > please fix it?
> >
> > The example you gave works for me. If you can isolate the problem,  
> > I can patch
> > Octave's sources.
>
>
> My gnuplot supports "set term pdf" (it is compiled with "pdfcairo"
> terminal). However, it seems that octave goes via postscript file  
> instead --
> I've put some printing commands to print.m, see below. The failure  
> happens
> because the original pdf file (the new plot to be appended to, i.e.  
> the
> original z.pdf) is called below
>         /tmp/oct-F79Jrl.ps
> but it does not exist. The new plot
>         /tmp/oct-byjhyV.ps
> exists (but it is postscript, not pdf!).
>
> Does this help?

ahh! ok, I'll take a look at fixing this tomorrow.

Ben