Re: Creating pdf documentation images with Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:54 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 28-Sep-2010, Rik wrote:
> 
> | Sometime ago we switched away from using Octave to generate the pdf images
> | for the documentation to using ghostscript to render the eps into pdf
> | format.  This was due to problems in the printing backend at the time.
> | Have those issues been resolved and can we switch back?
> | 
> | I just sample checked a few of the images generated by plotimages.m in
> | doc/interpreter and they seem to be created correctly.  Currently the eps
> | and png formats are created from Octave and the pdf by the Makefile via
> | ghostscript, but it would be nice to have the documentation printing be
> | unified with everything produced by Octave.
> 
> I don't object to making this change.  Will we be using gnuplot or
> gl2ps to generate the plots?  Which looks better?
> 
> jwe

I don't get the proper results for "demo image" when using the FLTK backend.

I recommend that we stay with gnuplot for now.

Ben