Peter Ulrich Kruppa ?????:
>
> 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.
>
You are right PS is probably the only vital option
if we want to save plot for later use. Please register
bug on Maxima web site at SourceForge.
>
>>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.
>
It is known problem which manifest itself under
certain window managers (bug #694179).
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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