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[Gnuplot-info] set xtics rotate by -45 works on one 4.2.6 but not on another

[Peter L. <pet...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have two machines. One Ubuntu 10.04 with gnuplot installed via apt-get 
(4.2.6 version). One Ubuntu 8.04 with 4.2.6 compiled from source 
(standard on ubuntu 8.04 is 4.2.2 but I want to have same version on 
both to avoid problems).

I'm using:

set xtics rotate by -45

On my Ubuntu 10.04 it works fine, but on the 8.04 the rotation is done 
90 degrees instead of -45 and the text ends up behind the graph.

Attached I have:

ubuntu804.plot, ubuntu804.data, ubuntu804.png (output), 
ubuntu804.configure.out, ubuntu804.make_install.out : these files should 
be clear that they are from the 8.04 machine. The configure and make 
output is included for how I compiled gnuplot 4.2.6 on that machine.

ubuntu1004.plot, ubuntu1004.png : I use the same input as for the 8.04.

Can someone explain how the same gnuplot version can output different 
plots? Am I missing something to enable when I configure gnuplot to get 
this "set xtics rotate by -45" to work?

/Peter

Re: [Gnuplot-info] set xtics rotate by -45 works on one 4.2.6 but not on another

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 18.10.2011 08:21, Peter Lauri wrote:

> On my Ubuntu 10.04 it works fine, but on the 8.04 the rotation is done
> 90 degrees instead of -45 and the text ends up behind the graph.

The difference in machines and OS versions is almost 100% certainly a 
red herring.  The real problem is bound to lie in the versions of 
underlying libraries your self-built version uses.

> Attached I have:
>
> ubuntu804.plot, ubuntu804.data, ubuntu804.png (output),
> ubuntu804.configure.out, ubuntu804.make_install.out :

Unfortunately, none of those attachments made it to the mailing list. 
Configure.out in particular would have been absolutely crucial to see. 
Without it all I can offer is a guess: look at the startup-screen of 
your respective gnuplot binaries: what do they report as the terminal 
driver?  The output of "show version long" would be almost equally 
informative.

> Can someone explain how the same gnuplot version can output different
> plots?

By having different terminals compiled in and used, for one thing.