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

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Phil wrote
> 
> Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote
>> Bug in ghostscript 9.07. Downgrade to 9.06.
> I have the same issue that is described in this thread. Changing to
> ghostscript 9.06 does not help and the error is identical using 9.07 or
> 9.06.

> 
> Following some of the other debugging advice in this thread, here's some
> text from the eps file that is generated when the error occurs. I noticed
> that the line "cleartomark...." seems to be inserted randomly into the
> line.

> 
> However, the suggestion to try graphics_toolkit gnuplot did work for me.
> (And gnuplot works with both 9.06 and 9.07).



Changing graphics_tookit to gnuplot didn't help me.

I finally gave up on the mingw build of 3.6.4 and went to the Visual C
build. I followed the instructions for printing at
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows#Printing_.28installing_Ghostscript.29

There are a few small deviations from the instructions given on the page, as
described below:

My notes from the install

install GS 9.06 in spaceless path--i used c:\gs\gs9.06. I used 9.06 because
someone suggested that 9.07 has got problems.

add the bin subdirectory in gs to the windows path environment. TO do this
on windoth 7 you go: Control Panel->System->Advanced System Setting (on
panel to left)->Advanced (tab on popup that appears when you click Advanced
System Setting)->Environment Varialbes (button at bottom)->Select 'Path'
under the list of "System variables" and add the full path to the binary,
INCLUDING THE BIN SUBDIRECTORY to the end. Separate this with a semicolon
from the rest of the path. In my case this was 'C:\gs\gs9.06\bin'

Do the trick with adding gs_path to the path environment variable in you
.octaverc file. In my case I did:

cmd_path=getenv('path');
gs_path='C:\gs\gs9.06';

if (isempty (strfind(cmd_path,gs_path))),
   setenv('path',strcat (cmd_path, pathsep (),gs_path));
endif

also added psedit to the path. Note, however, that this is a vestige from a
previous install and so it my not be relevant.

pstoedit_path='C:\Program Files (x86)\pstoedit';
if (isempty (strfind(cmd_path,pstoedit_path))),
   setenv('path',strcat (cmd_path, pathsep (),pstoedit_path));
endif






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