On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> 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).
Yes, you are right. plot3d produces great postscripts.
I think this is a bug, that should be fixed with high priority, since
.ps (and .eps) produce the best quality printouts with latex or
OpenOffice. And, they can easily be scaled and converted to any other
format.
>
> Strange that openmath doesn't work for you. Do you have
> Tcl/Tk installed?
Yes, I have got tcl-8.4.4 and tk-8.4.4 .
openmath isn't completely unusable: it shows the plots, but the
menu-buttons don't react at all.
Regards,
Uli.
>
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