Re: Saves incomplete, multi-plot figure to file.

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

On May 13, 2013, at 11:13 PM, gholladay wrote:

> One additional piece of information that might be helpful is that, while the
> 'saveas' is in process, the interim window with the plot displayed against a
> black background remains open the entire time with the title "Figure 1 (Not
> Responding).  Is there a way to disable display of this window that might
> speed up the 'saveas' function?

The fltk toolkit requires the figure to be displayed in order to print() or saveas()

If part of the figure is off the screen it will not render correctly..

Ben

Here's an older thread describing the process of plotting without displaying the plots. As Ben said, however, you'll have to switch to gnuplot, as it doesn't' work with fltk, as i found out later. :)

generally, use something like the following:

octave:1> figure(1, "visible", "off");
octave:2> plot(sin(1:100));
octave:3> print -dpng "/tmp/sin.png"

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Saving-pngs-without-plotting-to-screen-first-td1628966.html#a1628970