Thanks for both tips -- I'll give these a try on Monday when I'm back at
work. Much appreciated!

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:35:52 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
> 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"
>
> for instance.  Then, if I need bitmap images, I use "convert" from
> ImageMagick to create these from the EPS files with the required
> density (depending on intended use, whether screen display or
> printing), as in
>
>  convert -quality 95 -density 300 graph.eps graph.png
>
> With EPS, you can get very nice looking text, especially with the
> "enhanced" gnuplot set terminal option and the result is size
> independent.
>
> --
> Eric S Fraga
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