On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, artur tarassow wrote: [ namely, the ability to save the plot "as an icon" ] The following script works on Linux; the system ("!") commands would obviously have to be changed for Windows: <script> function make_eps (scalar i) # reconstruct the plot name used by gretl sprintf pltname, "gpttmp%02d.plt", i # make a name for EPS output sprintf epsname, "plot%02d.eps", i # echo the relevant gnuplot cmds into a temp file ! echo "set term post eps" > tmp.plt ! echo "set output '@epsname'" >> tmp.plt # and dump the content of gretl's plotfile ! cat @pltname >> tmp.plt # run gnuplot to produce EPS ! gnuplot tmp.plt && rm tmp.plt end function open data9-7 list L = QNC INCOME PRICE UNEMP loop foreach i L gnuplot $i --time-series --with-lines make_eps(i) endloop </script> The script produces EPS files plot01.eps, ..., plot04.eps. One thing on the "TODO" list is a modification of gretl's gnuplot command so that you can do something like gnuplot <specs> --output=foo.eps The idea is that the "output" parameter would (a) give you control over the naming of the file, and (b) allow you to specify the type of file implicitly via the filename extension (.eps, .pdf, .svg, .png, etc., for gnuplot-supported formats). You could still use an extension of .plt or .gp to get a gnuplot command file suitable for further editing. Allin.

Ok, thanks very much for that. The boxplot works fine <script loop foreach i L boxplot $i --output=$i_box.eps endloop <script But: <script open data9-7 list L = QNC INCOME PRICE UNEMP loop foreach i L gnuplot $i --time-series --with-lines --output=$i.eps endloop <script generates an error: <output ? list L = QNC INCOME PRICE UNEMP Generated list L ? loop foreach i L ? gnuplot QNC --with-lines --time-series --output=QNC.eps plot '-' using 1:($2) title "fitted" w lines lt 2, '-' using 1:($2) title "actual" w lines lt 1 ^ "/home/artur/gretl/QNC.gp", line 77: warning: Skipping dat <<output Artur 2009/2/23, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;:

Wow, it works fine now! ;) But, I think one little error remains. The option *.pdf does not produce any graphs. output: <<< ? gnuplot LHUR --with-lines --time-series --output=LHUR_fig.pdf set term pdf ^ "/home/artur/gretl/LHUR_fig.gp", line 1: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list <<< *.eps, *.png and *.fig are ok. Best, Artur Tarassow P.S. Time when Allin Cottrell answered <03:28> Is it not a little bit too late for programming? ;) ------ 2009/2/24 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt;

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti 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. Allin.

I favour the newly implemented solution: "Gnuplot does not support PDF output on this system" I am not sure whether one can really assume that ghostscript is part of a basic unix installation -- I just do not know. Artur 2009/2/24 Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it&gt;