[Gretl-devel] plot export problems with pdf (and eps)

Dear all, [first I thought of sending this to the users list, but it's neither asking for help nor giving useful advice, so here it goes to gretl-devel instead] today I had to add the (hopefully) finishing touch to a paper, and that included replacing the png graphics with scalable vector graphic formats (read: pdf). Those png graphs had originally been produced with gretl (of course!). The (known, I think) problem was again that all the changes to font sizes and thicker line widths etc. show up fine in the png output produced from gretl's "builtin" gnuplot --well actually there are some issues like overlap of tick labels and axes, but anyway--, but not at all in the pdf (or eps) versions. That was a show-stopper for me once again. I did not really find a gretl/gnuplot-based solution, at least none that I could master. I'm sure it's possible in theory to tweak the gnuplot commands so that it gets it right even for the pdf terminal, but that's beyond my gnuplot knowledge, and the gnuplot documentation is not very accessible, as I have said before. So in the end I used R (from within gretl, of course!) to produce those graphs, and after some trial-and-error and browsing R graphics documentation I got good results. My point is: it seems that getting publication-quality scalable graphs in pdf and/or eps format is currently still a weak spot of gretl. Except if I'm missing something, then I would be grateful for any hints. Otherwise, my guess is that many users would benefit from improvements in this area, and it would make a transition away from Eviews or PcGive more feasible for them. thanks for reading, sven