Re: problem with printing graphics to file Octave 3.6.4, manual install, windows

[Abbott, Ben]

On May 22, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Abbott, Ben wrote:

> On May 22, 2013, at 10:34 AM, ossands wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Abbott, Ben-2 [via Octave] <[hidden email]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 22, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Obed Sands wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Ben Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>>>> On May 19, 2013, at 04:07 PM, Obed Sands <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I did the manual install for windows, as described sourceforge/ Octave 
>>>>>> Forge (c.f. 
>>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/)
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Things seem to be working o.k. and Gnuplot seems to be in place as 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> octave:1>plot(rand(40,3)) 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> produces a good result but 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> octave:2>print -djpg 'lkj.jpg' 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> gives an error: 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Error: /undefined in nan 
>>>>>> Operand stack: 
>>>>>>  --nostringval-- 
>>>>>> Execution Stack: 
>>>>>>  %interp_exit   .runexec2 --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
>>>>>> --nostringval--  2   %stopped_push  --nostringval--  --nostringval-- 
>>>>>> --nostringval--    false   1   %stopped_push   1932  1 3  %oparray_pop   
>>>>>> 1931  1   3  %opparay_pop   --nostringval--  1915   1  3   %opparay_pop  
>>>>>>  1803  1  3  --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2  
>>>>>> --nostringval--   --nostringval--  --nostringval--  2  %stopped_push  
>>>>>> --nostringval-- 
>>>>>> Dictionary stack: 
>>>>>>   --dict:1179/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:82/200(L)--   
>>>>>> --dict:40/64(L)-- 
>>>>>> Current allocation mode is local 
>>>>>> Last OS error: No such file or directory 
>>>>>> GPL  Ghostscript  9.07:  Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 
>>>>>> octave:3> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any ideas will be appreciated, 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Scott Sands 
>>>>> 
>>>>> That ghostscript is being called indicates that Octave thinks it has 
>>>>> produced an eps-file.  Please verify that eps output is working for you. 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   print -depsc test.eps 
>>>>> 
>>>>> If that works, please tell us what Octave returns with the debug flag. 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   print -djpg -debug test.jpg 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ben 
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Ben, 
>>>> 
>>>> specifying epsc as the target file type gives the same message. 
>>>> 
>>>> eps output must not be working. 
>>>> 
>>>> oss
>>> 
>>> What does Octave return when you add the "-debug" flag? 
>>> 
>>> Please copy-n-paste what you typed and what Octave returned. 
>>> 
>>> Ben 
>> 
>> Here's a diary of the plot/print commands with the debug flag enabled
>> octave:6> plot(rand(40,3))
>> octave:7> print -depsc -debug lkj.eps
>> epstool command: 'C:\Octave\Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2\gs\bin/gswin32c.exe -dQUIET 
>> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile="lkj.eps" -'
>> fltk-pipeline: 'C:\Octave\Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2\gs\bin/gswin32c.exe -dQUIET 
>> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile="lkj.eps" -'
>> 
>> he other error messages follow as before (i.e. Error: /undefined in nan
>> Operand stack:...). These messages do not, however, show up in the diary 
>> file. Additionally, I can't seem to ^C/^V them into a window. I've had to 
>> transcribe them by hand in the past posting. They are, pretty-much as I 
>> reported and I'd guess that the differences have to do with my transcription 
>> skills. I can get a little more anal with the transcription of these 
>> messages if you think that would help. 
>> 
>> The gswin32c executable is there, as promised. Same result with 
>> graphics_toolkit('gnuplot') and graphics_toolkit('fltk')
>> 
>> oss
> 
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> Ok, back to your problem.
> 
> Please try the print command with the gnuplot toolkit.
> 
>       close all
>       graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>       plot (rand (3))
>       plot -depsc -debug test.eps
> 
> If there is an error (there should not be one since Octave does not use 
> epstool or ghostscript in this case) copy-n-paste the entire result from 
> Octave.
> 
> Ben

My mistake. You're running windows.  On windows Octave pipes the eps output 
through ghostscript and uses ghostscripts epswrite driver to create the 
eps-file.

Ben