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Re: Colour, no gif

From	Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: Colour, no gif
Date	2011-12-14 15:06 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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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 (dieterhansbritz<at>gmail.com)

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Colour, no gif Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 16:50 +0100
  Re: Colour, no gif Christoph Bersch <usenet@bersch.net> - 2011-12-09 16:28 +0100
  Re: Colour, no gif sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2011-12-09 15:57 -0800
    Re: Colour, no gif Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 11:07 +0100
    Re: Colour, no gif Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2011-12-14 15:06 +0100
      Re: Colour, no gif Christoph Bersch <usenet@bersch.net> - 2011-12-14 14:58 +0100
        Re: Colour, no gif Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2011-12-15 10:44 +0100
          Re: Colour, no gif sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2011-12-15 13:17 -0800

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