From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: [OT] gnuplot quality Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:16:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87wru4uhux.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87eigde28n.fsf@gmail.com> <87d3vw8shu.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> <87631o8ebj.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eric S Fraga Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart_Sat_Jun_12_21:16:22_2010-1" Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45773 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ONX81-0002ax-9u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:16:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONX80-0001i5-4V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:16:29 -0400 Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]:33483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONX7z-0001hd-To for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:16:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87631o8ebj.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: org-mode mailing list --Multipart_Sat_Jun_12_21:16:22_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:23:44 -0700, "Eric Schulte" wrote: > > Eric S Fraga writes: > > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:35:52 -0700, "Eric Schulte" wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> WRT: the ugliness of gnuplot to file, I've wrestled with this myself and > >> I know exactly what you mean. Currently I try to use svg or png images > >> when exporting to html, and for pdf I use the gnuplot tikz terminal [2]. > > > > John & Eric, > > > > Another approach, which I use and which doesn't require using the > > development version of gnuplot for the tikz support, is to generate > > encapsulated postscript files: > > > > set terminal postscript eps enhanced 20 > > set output "graph.eps" > > > > Thanks! > > I just tried the above (well technically the below [1]) and it does look > great and scales well. It's nice to have a light-weight alternative to > tikz -- a great addition to my plotting toolbox. > > Best -- Eric [...] > Footnotes: > [1] > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > #+begin_src gnuplot > set terminal postscript eps enhanced 20 color > set output "~/Desktop/graph.eps" > set isosample 30,30 > set title 'bumpy' > set xrange[-4:4] > set yrange[-4:4] > splot sin(x) + sin(y) notitle > #+end_src > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > You're very welcome. I use a number of methods to generate graphs and diagrams and gnuplot is definitely one of my favourites. For the adventurous, there's a great blog: http://gnuplot-tricks.blogspot.com/ Put gnuplot together with org-mode and org-babel and it's yet another piece in the puzzle that leads to an incredibly powerful desktop analysis and publishing system! --Multipart_Sat_Jun_12_21:16:22_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D --Multipart_Sat_Jun_12_21:16:22_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode --Multipart_Sat_Jun_12_21:16:22_2010-1--