On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I'm not sure what Org mode is doing behind the scenes, but I suspect
> something is getting muddled because you specify both the src block file
> header /and/ the output terminal in the gnu plot code.
>
> Perhaps a simpler solution - if you indeed want Postscript images - would
> be to remove the =:file …= header argument and specify the =set output=
> within the gnuplot script itself?  That should still generate the .eps file.
>
>
I may give this a try at work tomorrow... just tried the same file on my
Mac at home (running the same linux setup) and it's working, though I still
get a filename.eps and a filename-eps-converted-to.pdf output. It's just
that the .eps on this computer is valid and viewable.

I'll have to dig into this some more; perhaps comparing org versions and
.emacs config files.

I'm pulling from the org git repo and doing a make now on this computer as
we speak. If it still works, I'll do the same at work tomorrow and see if
that helps.


Thanks for the input,
John



> Chris
>
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:54 PM, John Hendy wrote:
>
> I have the following gnuplot/babel block and for some reason the resultant
> .eps file comes up broken but a corresponding version of it gets converted
> to pdf somehow... what's going on? I stole an example just to check and
> make sure it wasn't my gnuplot code:
> http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/intro/plotfunc-e.html
>
> -----
> #+begin_src gnuplot :file export.eps :exports results
> reset
>
> set terminal postscript eps color enhanced 20
>
> a=0.25
>  b=0.02
>  c=0.05
>  d=0.1
>  f(x)=c/((x-a)*(x-a)+b)+d/sqrt(x)
>  set xrange [0:1]
>  set yrange [0:4]
>  plot f(x)
>
> #+end_src
> -----
>
> I get a file export.eps which is broken and unreadable by geeqie. I get a
> corresponding file called export-eps-converted-to.pdf that opens fine and
> looks like it should.
>
> What am I doing incorrectly?
>
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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