Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dieter Britz Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Colour, no gif Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:06:50 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dieterhansbritz@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="S2tr21+w9nqodxC34Z//Bw"; logging-data="15841"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18RsBYAxLZq8bV/hWGmS9t/d+n/tdBlrCA=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AIZeI1WhKvgAWP8MVQguULITgsM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:747 sfeam wrote: > Dieter Britz wrote: > >> Until recently I have used the terminal type "gif" which allowed me >> a coloured canvas. A gnuplot update has now removed gif from the >> terminal types. > > For the last 10+ years, gnuplot has generated gif output through the > external library libgd. This has not changed on the gnuplot end, so > I am guessing this means you no longer have libgd installed. > >> Can I have a coloured canvas with postsctipt enh eps, or what >> terminal type is there that will allow me this, and how do I specify >> the colour? I have tried postscript enh eps, adding rgb "#010101", >> but gnuplot says it doesn't know rgb. > > In the current version (4.4) the most general way to do this is to > specify a filled rectangle that exactly fills the screen, or the > graph, and is placed behind everything else. This works for all > terminals that support filled rectangles. > > Example: > http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/rectangle.html > > In the next release most terminals will support a "background" keyword > that does this more cleanly. Thanks, that helped. I have now solved the problem by letting gnuplot output an eps file which I then convert to jpg by hand using the Gimp. See the results here: http://www.dieterbritz.dk/fusweb/stats.html -- Dieter Britz (dieterhansbritzgmail.com)