Re: [OT] gnuplot quality (was Re: [Orgmode] org-plot file export options)

[Nick Dokos]

John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Tried this and it works well -- the output is definitely much better! One 
> oddity -- the EPS
> generated is black and white whereas the typical output was in color... silly 
> option I'm missing?
> 

"monochrome" is default:

,----
| set terminal postscript eps enhanced 20
| Terminal type set to 'postscript'
| Options are 'eps enhanced defaultplex \
|    leveldefault monochrome colortext \
|    dashed dashlength 1.0 linewidth 1.0 butt \
|    palfuncparam 2000,0.003 \
|    "Helvetica" 20 '
`----

Say "help set terminal postcript" to gnuplot and it'll spew (among other 
things):


,----
|  `default` sets all options to their defaults: `landscape`, `monochrome`,
|  `dashed`, `dl 1.0`, `lw 1.0`, `defaultplex`, `noenhanced`, "Helvetica" and
|  14pt.  Default size of a PostScript plot is 10 inches wide and 7 inches high.
|  The option `color` enables color, while `monochrome` prefers black and white
|  drawing elements. Further, `monochrome` uses gray `palette` but it does not
|  change color of objects specified with an explicit `colorspec`.
|  `solid` draws all plots with solid lines, overriding any dashed patterns.
|  `dashlength` or `dl` scales the length of the dashed-line segments by <DL>,
|  which is a floating-point number greater than zero.
|  `linewidth` or `lw` scales all linewidths by <LW>.
`----

HTH,
Nick