gnuplot svg terminal problem

[pullUrAn]

within the gnuplot when i created svg file using the svg terminal, the
svg file wasnt able to open using inkscape or other viewer.

example:
gnuplot> set term svg
Terminal type set to 'svg'
Options are 'size 600 480 fixed fname 'Arial' fsize 12 butt '
gnuplot> set out "test.svg"
gnuplot> plot [0:1] x**2
then when i tried to open the using mozilla test.svg, it is nt working
giving me an error
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: file:///home/..../test.svg
Line Number 103, Column 1:

But when i made a script using the above commands
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$emacs scriptfile.gp&
scriptfile contains:
gnuplot> set term svg
Terminal type set to 'svg'
Options are 'size 600 480 fixed fname 'Arial' fsize 12 butt '
gnuplot> set out "test.svg"
gnuplot> plot [0:1] x**2
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and used gnuplot in the following way

...@..:~$ gnuplot scriptfile.gp

it indeed worked and i can open the resulted test.svg.

any explanation of what went wrong in the first case??

gnuplot version:
(G N U P L O T Version 4.2 System: debian sid/lenny Linux
2.6.17-2-686)

Thanks
Sree

[Michael Hofmann]

> any explanation of what went wrong in the first case??

Probably, gnuplot was still runing and you missed the "unset output" command that finalizes the svg-file. The output is automatically finalized when gnuplot exits (e.g., at the end of executing a script).

Michael

[pullUrAn]

On Aug 22, 9:33 am, "Michael Hofmann" <michael.hofm...@s2000.tu-
chemnitz.de> wrote:

> Probably, gnuplot was still runing and you missed the "unset output" command that finalizes the svg-file. The output is automatically finalized when gnuplot exits (e.g., at the end of executing a script).

thanks. yes that was the case. now the frist case indeed producing
correct svg file.
thanks again.

Sree