Re: AW: Octave installation Windows 7

[Philip Nienhuis]

Stampfli Marx wrote
> I installed ghostscript and I set the path in octavert
> setenv ("PATH", [ getenv("PATH")  pathsep  "C:\\Program
> Files\\gs\\gs9.06\\bin"]).
> strsplit (getenv ("PATH"), ";") shows that the path is set correctly.
> But my print('figTest.png','-dpng') still does not create the *.png file.
> My good old octave 3.03 creates very good *.png files, even better than
> 3.2.4.
> I know 3.6.x supports quaternions, which I'd like to simulate android
> smartphones in octave
> What can I do?

Well, first of all, stop top posting. 
Please answer below the mail so the thread can be tracked by latecomers.
Read on.....


> Marx
> 
> ________________________________
> Von: Michael Goffioul [

> michael.goffioul@

> ]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. September 2012 14:48
> An: Stampfli Marx
> Cc: 

> help-octave@

> Betreff: Re: Octave installation Windows 7
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:01 AM, sfm1 <

> sfm1@

> <mailto:

> sfm1@

> >> wrote:
> Thank you Philip
> I did all you proposed. The files and directories copied in the correct
> path, setting the path in octaverc. / replaced by \\, no directory with a
> blank in its name. All these pathes are visual in octaves, tested with
> getenv("PATH"). The fiels are found.
> No warning messages appear now. but there is no *.png file.
> Do I really have to install ghostscript as Michael proposed? Or is the
> graphic end qt wrong?
> 
> I think you really need ghostscript. The other utilities that you
> installed are needed for more exotic file formats.
> 
> Michael.
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In the ghostscript ./bin directory, copy gswin32c.exe to gs.exe.

Actually this bug has been reported before in the bug tracker (earlier this
year, around spring IIRC), but I can't find it right now.
It might have been fixed, I don't know.
But indeed this is a creepy one.

Philip




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