Bug#248426: set terminal pdf doesn't work
Peter Chubb
Package: gnuplot
Version: 3.8k.1-1
From the documentation,
set terminal pdf
should enable PDF output.
From within Gnuplot,
gnuplot> help set terminal pdf
tells me that pdf output is supported.
However,
gnuplot> set terminal pdf
^
unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list
And sure enough, just
gnuplot> set terminal
does not list PDF.
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Thimo Neubauer
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:17:00PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Package: gnuplot
> Version: 3.8k.1-1
>
> >From the documentation,
> set terminal pdf
> should enable PDF output.
>
> >From within Gnuplot,
> gnuplot> help set terminal pdf
> tells me that pdf output is supported.
>
> However,
>
> gnuplot> set terminal pdf
> ^
> unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list
Unfortunately we can't include the PDF-terminal into the
gnuplot-packages because it uses the non-free PDFlib to plot. As a
workaround you could use the postscript-terminal and convert the
output with ps2pdf which is probably already installed on your system
(it's included in the GhostScript-package)
> And sure enough, just
>
> gnuplot> set terminal
>
> does not list PDF.
The situtation with the gif-terminal is similar: gnuplot supports the
output but due to license-restritions of the gif-format we can't
activate it...
About the documentation existing for a non-working terminal: "help set
terminal" warns about this:
This document may describe drivers that are not available to you because they
were not installed, or it may not describe all the drivers that are available
to you, depending on its output format.
But I'll have a look into this, it seems that unconfigured terminals
could be excluded when the docs are automatically extracted from the
sources.
Cheers
Thimo