Re: figures after print command never look good

[Maynard Wright]

I'm running Octave under Linux and I use a screen capture program (KSnapshot) to save the images produced by plot. I display the plots full screen before I capture them. I edit the resulting figures with an image editor (Krita in my case), mostly to crop away the Linux artifacts from the top and bottom edges.

This may seem a little cumbersome, but it produces nice plots and I've been using it through several versions of Octave.

Maynard Wright

On Sunday, October 21, 2012 03:33:52 am marasolc wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I'm able to set the figure and axes properties by set(gca...) so that after

> calling the plot command the figure looks fine. However, I have never

> managed to produce such a nice figure by print('fig.png','-dpng'...)

> command. The saved figures simply look bad - when I use appropriate

> fontsize, then the tickslabels, xlabels and legend are messed up

> (overlapping or at bad position...). The problem appears not only for png

> terminal, but for any other terminal which I tried (eps, jpg, svg...).

>

> Is there any way how to save the figure in the form how it appears after

> calling the plot command?

>

> I'm running Octave 3.2.4 on Win7, but I experience the same problems with

> Octave 3.6.1. I prefer not to upgrade at the moment.

>

> Thanks a lot,

> Marek Scholz

>