Re: Can't save a plot

[Jorgen Sandberg]

Dear Ben Abbott,

Sorry, but it does not work.

I have attached a screen snap and a copy of the octaverc file, where I have 
added the path information. It seems to me that OCTAVE is still looking for 
a file named ghostscript.

I would highly appreciate that you integrate ghostscript in the installation 
package for Windows 7, 64 bit. In that way it would work.

Regards,

Jorgen Sandberg



-----Original Message----- 
From: Ben Abbott
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 9:35 PM
To: Jorgen Sandberg
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Can't save a plot


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

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