plotting to psfile?



On 05/11/2012 05:13 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Richard Fateman 
> <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu <mailto:fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I was hoping to produce a postscript EPS file of a plot (so I
>     could include
>     it in a TeX file), using Maxima.  I thought something like this
>     would work:
>
>     plot2d(sin(x),[x,-%pi,%pi],[psfile,"sinplot"]);
>
>     but what was produced was a gnuplot file, not EPS.
>
>     Did I do something wrong?
>
>
> I think you need to add [gnuplot_term, "eps"].
That should not be necessary, because the psfile option already sets 
gnuplot_term to eps.

I use "plot2d(sin(x),[x,-%pi,%pi],[psfile,"sinplot.ps"]);"
all the time to include the plot in Latex files, and it works for me.
Even if I use "sinplot" for the file name, a PostScript file will be
created. Perhaps is a feature of the Windows port of gnuplot?: please
try using a file name with a .ps or .eps extension (sinplot.ps).

Regards,
Jaime