Re: [Gretl-users] boxplot(s) within a loop

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote: Ah, I had forgotten that gnuplot might not support PDF output. > But in fact we already have a check for that (a one-time runtime > check, which is not elegant but, I think, better than disabling > PDF). So I've now connected that check to the new functionality: > one should get an informative error message on trying to generate > PDF when gnuplot can't do it. > If the problem is confined to unix-like systems, one could assume that ghostscript is installed and use the following hack: <gnuplot_script> set terminal postscript set output "| ps2pdf - > foo.pdf" plot sin(x) </gnuplot_script> Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users