#152 MS Word, PDF + EMF error
Long time user, first time writer :-) Many thanks for a great piece of software!
I'm running gnuplot 4.6.0 for Windows and I'm having problems exporting PDF documents from MS Word with EMF plots generated in gnuplot, as also described here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3561827&group_id=2055&atid=102055
You have fixed this bug in gnuplot 4.6.1 I see. Unfortunately you do not have the Windows executable of that gnuplot version online. So I wanted to build it myself. I am obviously running MS Windows. I have MS Visual Studio 2010 installed and I managed to get nmake running (first time trying that). It got stuck on gd.h not existing. It appears to be part of the libgd. I went to that webpage and it seemed to be very difficult to build libdgd for windows.
So could I ask you to simply upload the Windows executable of gnuplot 4.6.1 so I can download and use it immediately and continue my work?
Cheers!
We really should provide a 4.6.1 executable for Windows. In the meantime you can find a binary of the (more or less) current development version here:
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
Thanks!
I have downloaded and installed the file gp470-20120916-win32-small-mingw from the webpage you mentioned. It fixes the problem I had with using EMF files in MS Word. However, now the linetypes (lt) don't work. In v.4.6.0 I would use lt 0 and lt -1 and get one dotted and one solid line. In this v.4.7.0 I just get two solid lines with the exact same gnuplot commands. In both versions I would write: set terminal emf enhanced. How do I fix this problem?
The default setting for dashed or solid lines changed in version 4.6.1 and 4.7. You will get dahed lines with `set term emf enhanced dashed`.
There is now a Windows binary for 4.6.3