Re: print -dashed fails with gnuplot backend

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:

> On Nov 10, 2010, at 17:38 , ext Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> I've attached a demo changeset that fixes the crash for me.
>> 
>> If this approach is acceptable, I'll need to handle other print options in a 
>> similar manner.
>> 
> 
> This worked for me as well. However, I need the capability to plot multiple 
> lines with legend that allows the lines to be identified also when printed on 
> black and white. Before the recent printing changes this was the default 
> behavior. It was implemented by enumerating the different linestyles 
> available with gnuplot for the plotted lines. Would it be difficult to have 
> this back, maybe in the form of using a different gnuplot linestyle for each 
> dashed line of different color, i.e. mapping the color number (if such 
> exists) to linestyle number (2 and above) for lines with Octave linestyle 
> '--'?
> 
> On screen the different colors obviously work better, but I need the above 
> for eps plots.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Jarno

I don't have an objection, but also don't immediately see a convenient way to 
do that. If some one else does, please make a suggestion.

An alternative would be to use linestyleorder.

        close all
        set (0, "DefaultAxesLineStyleOrder", {"-", "--",":", "-."})
        set (0, "DefaultAxesColorOrder", [0 0 0])
        yvals = [1:8;1:8]
        plot (yvals)
        axis ([1 2 0 size(yvals,2)+1])
        print -dpdfwrite test.pdf

Is this the desired result when "-dashed" is included?

Ben