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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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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