Re: 3.6.1 produces eps files that are unusable on Debian wheezy

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 03/03/2012 10:09 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > BTW, the problem with "{}" exist with the original doc files in octave tar ball.
> > E.g. in doc/interpreter
> > gs mesh.eps
[snip]
> > > > showpage, press<return>  to continue<<
> >
> > I am not sure if we should consider this a bug.
>
> Thanks for finding that, at least it's consistent.  I'm still not
> convinced whether the problem is with octave, gnuplot, or gs.  I'll
> poke around some more.

I consider it a bug somewhere along the way.  The root issue might be 
confusion arising from gnuplot's dual method of specifying fonts, but I 
believe it is Octave where the simplest fix is.  If there is an issue 
with gnuplot inconsistencies, let me know; I'll argue that gnuplot 
should have font specification consistency.

Mike, have you tried adding this line to your startup scripts?

set(0, 'defaultaxesfontname', 'Helvetica')

Dan