Re: Can't save a plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:23 AM, Jorgen Sandberg wrote:

> -----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
> 

> 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
> <Install Ghostscript.docx>

When you installed Ghostscript, what was the "Destination directory"?

DId you set "gs_path" to the "Destination directory" in ~\.octaverc?

Using the default destination directory for 32 bit Win7 the adds to include in 
~/.octaverc are ...

    cmd_path = getenv ("path");
    gs_path = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.05';
    if (isempty (strfind (cmd_path, gs_path)))
      setenv ('path', strcat (cmd_path, pathsep (), gs_path));
    endi

Ben