Am Mittwoch, den 21.05.2008, 10:55 +0200 schrieb Soeren Sonnenburg: > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:49 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 01.05.2008, 10:59 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber: > > > On 30/04/08 15:15 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > > > * Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-30 13:21]: > > > > > gnuplot needs pdflib to produce PDF output. pdflib's license is > > > > > non-free. > > > > > > > > > > Which raises the question: did this ever work? > > > > > > > > > > [looking through BTS ...] => #248426 > > > > > > > > This explains the problem, but I think that we still ought to fix > > > > print.m, > > > > whose documentation ("help print") lists PDF as a possible output > > > > format and > > > > yields the cryptic error message "unknown or ambiguous terminal type". > > > > > > To be fair, it prints a line with a pointer right at the "pdf" part. > > > > > > > If I have some time next week I will try to create a patch for fixing > > > > this. > > > > > > How to fix it? I think dropping the 'pdf' part from print()'s help > > > string should suffice, shouldn't it? > > > > I like to fix this bug with the next upload. Now, how to fix it: > > dropping the pdf part from the documentation? I don't want to change the > > actual code, people may want to compile both pdflib and gnuplot > > themselves. > > I guess it is sufficient to add a note to help print that says that pdf > support is not available in gnuplot... hmmhh but maybe it is gnuplot > that could give a more reasonable error here.
That might be an option, but as Octave is on its way away from gnuplot, I don't want to spend to much time with it ... Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]