Re: Can't save a plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 9, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Jorgen Sandberg wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Ben Abbott
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:37 PM
> To: Jorgen Sandberg
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Can't save a plot
> 
> On Nov 8, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Jorgen Sandberg wrote:
> 
>> Dear Sirs,
>> 
>> I have installed OCTAVE 3.6.2 VS2010 on a Windows 7 machine. When i will 
>> save a plot using the print or saveas command, I get an error message saying 
>> that ghostscript is missing.
> 
> Instructions for installing ghostscript at on the wiki at the link below.
> 
> http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows#Printing_.28installing_Ghostscript.29
> 
>> In addition the package symbolic does not install.
> 
> How did you try to install the symbolic package?
> 
> Have you looked at using maxima for symbolic calculations?
> 
> http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> 
> Ben
> 
> Dear Ben Abbott,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help. Unfortunately, I still have the problem.
> 
> I have downloaded Ghostscript 9.05 and installed it. I have added the path in 
> the /.octaverc file as per the instruction for Octave with Visual studio, but 
> OCTAVE still can't find ghostscript. I have looked into the ghostscript 
> installation and in the bin file is gswin32.exe. Thus I guess Octave should 
> be looking for gswin32.exe. Is that so?

I have Ghostscript 8.15 installed. Its binary is gswin32c.exe.

Assuming you have the gs_path environment variable set and have set the path in 
the Control Panel, you can tell the print command use use gswin32.exe instead 
by ...

        print -dpdf test.pdf -Ggswin32.exe

If that fixes the problem for you, I can patch the sources to include 
"gswin32.exe" when Octave searches for Ghostscript.

> I have also found a Ghostscript version 9.02 that is a tar.gz file like the 
> other packages for Octave on Sourceforge. Should I download this and install 
> it as a package in OCTAVE? Will that do the trick?
> 
> I am sorry to pass you these stupid problems. I am aware that OCTAVE is free 
> so I should not complain. However, please understand that I want to spend my 
> effort on using it in place of struggling with the installation. My wish is 
> that you prepare a complete installation package for stupid users as I such 
> that there is no need to install any other packages. Please....
> 
> On the symbolic package. I downloaded the package from the sourgeforge.net 
> site for windows. The name of the package is 
> octave-3.6.2-symbolic-1.1.0-vs2010-setup.exe. After having installed OCTAVE 
> 3.6.2 I clicked on the package to activate its installation like I had done 
> it for the other packages available on the same site. But the symbolic 
> package came with the error message, while all the other packages installed 
> without any error message.

I can't help with this.  Hopefully someone familiar with the symbolic package 
on windows with help.

Ben