Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: sfeam Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Colour, no gif Followup-To: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:17:35 -0800 Organization: gnuplot development team Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: sfeam@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="joalffpZlyHxFtpFd/PRrw"; logging-data="615"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+FkjgOgpIHf0F/N66ZdFB4" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zjPDvYgMF98twbWfPOjgNe2ATCI= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:751 Dieter Britz wrote: > Christoph Bersch wrote: > >> On 14.12.2011 15:06, Dieter Britz wrote: >>> >>> 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 >> >> Well, this is a rather ugly workaround. If you go this way, for the kind >> of pictures you showed it is better to use PNG rather than JPEG. >> Alternatively, do you have the pngcairo terminal? >> >> To fix your gnuplot: Which SuSE version do you have? From where do you >> have gnuplot? >> >> Christoph > > You are asking an embarrassing question... I have, at work, Open Suse > 10.2. I know I should upgrade but it would mean re-installing some > programs, such as Fortran, etc, and as long as it's working, I am not keen > on that. I did upgrade gnuplot a while ago but it doesn't let me use gif > or png, hence this awkward way of doing it. The usual cause of this problem (lack of support for a particular terminal) is that at the time gnuplot was configured and built the "development" package for the corresponding support library was not present. To get png support you could rebuild gnuplot yourself from source, first making sure that libgd2-devel is installed on your machine. Or, as Christoph Bersch pointed out, you could also get png support by installed the pango+cairo development libraries. But that involves many extra packages compared to libgd, which is relatively self-contained. Ethan