gnuplot-beta

rotate

[John <aen...@ya...>]

Hi,
I'm working with the pslatex terminal.
Something goes wrong with dvips when I use the rotate option.
I get several error messages like this :

dvips: Unknow keyword (rotate) in \special will be ignored
dvips Could not find figure file ps\penalty; continuing

Is this a bug?
Could this be related to an incompatibilty of gnuplot's code with newer versions
of ghostscript?

John

Re: pslatex

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 06 November 2006 06:00 am, John wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working with the pslatex terminal.
> Something goes wrong with dvips when I use the rotate option.
> I get several error messages like this :
>
> dvips: Unknow keyword (rotate) in \special will be ignored
> dvips Could not find figure file ps\penalty; continuing

Works fine for me.

Here's what I did:

gnuplot> set term pslatex
gnuplot> set output "rotate.pslatex"
gnuplot> load "textrotate.dem"
gnuplot> quit

And here is my LaTeX document:


\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphics} %epslatex needs that
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{pstricks} %for pstricks
\usepackage{eepic} %eepic
\begin{document}
\input{rotate.pslatex} %or insert content of *.pslatex here
\end{document}




If this doesn't work for you, please give specific version
numbers of all programs involved, and a test script showing
the error.

> Could this be related to an incompatibilty of gnuplot's code with
> newer versions of ghostscript?

Not as you describe it. You never got as far as running ghostscript.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA

Re: pslatex

[John <aen...@ya...>]

> Here's what I did:
> 
> gnuplot> set term pslatex
> gnuplot> set output "rotate.pslatex"
> gnuplot> load "textrotate.dem"
> gnuplot> quit
> 
> And here is my LaTeX document:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{graphics} %epslatex needs that
> \usepackage{color}
> \usepackage{pstricks} %for pstricks
> \usepackage{eepic} %eepic
> \begin{document}
> \input{rotate.pslatex} %or insert content of *.pslatex here
> \end{document}
> 

OK, your code works fine for me too.
Actually, the error I got was coming from the use of the LaTeX babel package
(used to specify a particular language).
So there seems to be an incompatibility with this package, independent of the
gnuplot version used.

John

Re: rotate

[<HBB...@t-...>]

John wrote:

> I'm working with the pslatex terminal.

Which one (i.e: which gnuplot version, if 4.1, which timestamp)?

> Something goes wrong with dvips when I use the rotate option.

Use it how, exactly?  Please fully describe a complete, minimal example 
case: gnuplot input, TeX file, expected behaviour, and the exact error 
message (copy-paste, not retyped).

> Is this a bug?

Impossible to say based on the given information.

> Could this be related to an incompatibilty of gnuplot's code with newer versions
> of ghostscript?

Hardly.  You're not even running ghostscript yet, so how could whatever 
it might have to complain about gnuplot's output have to do with a dvips 
problem?