Re: Is fig2dev a new requirement?

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:42 PM, bpabbott wrote:

> On 05 Aug, 2010,at 06:02 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 8/5/10
>> 
>> While building the documentation, which uses Octave and print.m to produce
>> the embedded images, I now get the following warning for all of the eps and
>> png images.
>> 
>> warning: print.m: 'fig2dev' not found in EXEC_PATH
>> 
>> I am using the gnuplot backend so I didn't believe the work surrounding
>> FLTK printing would affect me. The images appear to be generated correctly
>> except for extended.png which uses the tex interpreter. For that image I
>> also get the following warnings and no text on the plot.
>> 
>> gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string ¬ with
>> font Symbol
>> gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string Ö with
>> font Symbol
>> gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string p with font
>> Symbol
>> gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string ò with
>> font Symbol
>> 
>> --Rik
>  
> The warning is not intended. I'll take a look when I get the chance.
> 
> Ben

I've pushed a changeset that should avoid the warning unless fig2dev is 
actually needed.

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/337db4e1342d

Rik, Regarding fig2dev being a requirement, it is if you print to a 
format/device that requires conversion by fig2dev.

To obtain the fig format, pstoedit is used.

Ben