Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:35:52 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > [...] > >> WRT: the ugliness of gnuplot to file, I've wrestled with this myself and >> I know exactly what you mean. Currently I try to use svg or png images >> when exporting to html, and for pdf I use the gnuplot tikz terminal [2]. > > John & Eric, > > Another approach, which I use and which doesn't require using the > development version of gnuplot for the tikz support, is to generate > encapsulated postscript files: > > set terminal postscript eps enhanced 20 > set output "graph.eps" >
Thanks! I just tried the above (well technically the below [1]) and it does look great and scales well. It's nice to have a light-weight alternative to tikz -- a great addition to my plotting toolbox. Best -- Eric > > for instance. Then, if I need bitmap images, I use "convert" from > ImageMagick to create these from the EPS files with the required > density (depending on intended use, whether screen display or > printing), as in > > convert -density 300 graph.eps graph.png > > With EPS, you can get very nice looking text, especially with the > "enhanced" gnuplot set terminal option and the result is size > independent. Footnotes: [1] --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+begin_src gnuplot set terminal postscript eps enhanced 20 color set output "~/Desktop/graph.eps" set isosample 30,30 set title 'bumpy' set xrange[-4:4] set yrange[-4:4] splot sin(x) + sin(y) notitle #+end_src --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
