postscript output



Peter Ulrich Kruppa ?????:
> Hi!
> 
> I have got some problems to print plots produced by Maxima.
> I think the simpliest solution should be to produce a postscript
> file, which - according to the docs - can be done this way:
> 	(C4) plot2d(x^2,[x,-5,5],[PLOT_FORMAT,PS]);
> 
> I receive a   FALSE	from maxima and find a file called
> maxout.ps in my home directory.
> 
> maxout.ps contains a long list of pairs of numbers - nothing else.
> How can I make this a printable .ps file?
> Or do I have to set anything else?
> 
> Thanks for your answers.
> 
> Uli.
> 
> P.S. Openmath and Geomview don't seem to work properly on my
>      system (FreeBSD -CURRENT) - to hack these wouldn't be the
>      simpliest solution. The gnuplot option works, but as far as
>      I know, gnuplot only produces boxplots.
> 

Yes, it seems that PS output is broken in plot2d  (but works with
plot3d with recent Maxima CVS fixes).

Strange that openmath doesn't work for you.  Do you have
Tcl/Tk installed?

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