[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#478677: Bug#478677: Bug#478677: Bug#478677: print('foo.pdf', '-dpdf') fails
Am Donnerstag, den 01.05.2008, 10:59 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> On 30/04/08 15:15 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com> [2008-04-30 13:21]:
> > > 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".
>
> To be fair, it prints a line with a pointer right at the "pdf" part.
>
> > If I have some time next week I will try to create a patch for fixing this.
>
> How to fix it? I think dropping the 'pdf' part from print()'s help
> string should suffice, shouldn't it?
I like to fix this bug with the next upload. Now, how to fix it:
dropping the pdf part from the documentation? I don't want to change the
actual code, people may want to compile both pdflib and gnuplot
themselves.
Thomas
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