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.

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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