Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux and others

[Bob F. <rob...@kn...>]

Oops! Sorry about the previous transmittal, I hit the wrong darn button!

All,

Wow, I am really impressed. You guys are extremely responsive and
helpful. I am not sure of the correct procedure for responding to
several different postings, so I am just going to try to do them all in
this one posting.

Ethan:
Yesterday, I mentioned that I had not been able to get the hot key
binding that you suggested to work properly and you asked for details:
(1) I had to include the output file name in quotes, which was no big
deal.
(2) I was surprised that after executing the hot key on the figure, the
gnuplot prompt did not return. I had to hit Enter. This seems different
from the other hot key operations.
(3) The process seemed slow. I was using Nautilus File Browser and often
the created file would not appear until I clicked on a newly created XML
file called .recently-used. This was very confusing to me. I finally
opened a terminal window and saw the the file was being created
properly. I guess this is something to do with the browser.


Several of you made very nice suggestions on the best way to get gnuplot
figures (in Windows) into, say, a MS Word document. I will definitely
consider them all. However, I am still a little puzzled. When running in
Windows and gnuplot Ver 4.1, I simply select the Option Copy to
Clipboard. Next, to insert the figure into a Word document, I select
Edit, Paste Special and am offered the following options: Windows
Metafile, Bitmap, Device Independent Bitmap, and Enhanced Metafile.
Typically I select EMF. The figure usually looks great and is
re-sizable, and the file is not that big. I am not sure how the copy is
made TO the Windows clipboard. Perhaps it is tied to my monitor
resolution (1600x1200) but it sure gives good results.

Dan:
I am eager to try out the Patch that you put on SourceForge - as soon as
I figure out how to do handle patches. Coming from a Windows world,
there sure are a lot of things that I don't understand.

Thanks again to all of you,

Bob