Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> actually it seems to work a lot worse for me than the examples shown.
>
> the option [psfile, "c:/temp/sin.eps"]
>
> causes a file maxout.gnuplot to appear in c:/temp.
> I then fire up a cygwin command shell and run gnuplot in it to produce
> sin.eps
>
> I am using windows xp, wxmaxima, maxima 5.25.1
>
> unfortunately, an eps file does not work with pdflatex, which I am using,
Use the pdfcairo terminal to produce a pdf file directly:
plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,2*%pi],[gnuplot_term,pdfcairo],[psfile,"./temp.pdf"]);
I don't know why setting 'psfile' works, while
plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,2*%pi],[gnuplot_term,pdfcairo],[gnuplot_out_file,"./temp.pdf"]);
produces a truncated file, but it happens (5.27.0 gcl).
In case you want to add latex markup to your plots, I just noticed that
Gnuplot 4.6 now has a 'cairolatex' terminal which is like the older
epslatex terminal, but for pdf files.
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