[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#478677: Bug#478677: Bug#478677: print('foo.pdf', '-dpdf') fails

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

package octave3.0
tags 478677 confirmed
thanks

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com> [2008-04-30 13:21]:

> Am Mittwoch, den 30.04.2008, 12:10 +0200 schrieb Soeren Sonnenburg:
> > Package: octave3.0
> > Version: 1:3.0.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > to reproduce just do (note print('foo.ps','-dps') works):
> > 
> > octave
> > 
> > plot([1,2,3])
> > print('foo.pdf','-dpdf')
> 
> gnuplot needs pdflib to produce PDF output. pdflib's license is
> non-free. 
> 
> Which raises the question: did this ever work?
> 
> [looking through BTS ...] => #248426

This explains the problem, but I think that we still ought to fix print.m,
whose documentation ("help print") lists PDF as a possible output format and
yields the cryptic error message "unknown or ambiguous terminal type".

If I have some time next week I will try to create a patch for fixing this.

-- 
Rafael