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Gnuplot has a postscript terminal that can be used to produce figures in the eps format: set terminal postscript eps enhanced color font 'Helvetica,10' set output 'introduction.eps'īut this creates very tiny fonts, as stated in the documentation:

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I always create my pdf files of the plots from the postscript files, so I will cover only the postscript terminals in this introduction. The png and svg terminals work very well to produce figures to use on the web as you can see on this page, but for scientific papers or other stuff written in LaTeX we would like to have figures in postscript or pdf format. Since we want to create an output file in both cases we have to specify one.

But be aware that not all terminals handle the enhanced notation as mentioned in the gnuplot documentation. The enhanced option tells the terminals that they should interpret something like n_1 for us. If we don’t do this, the default value of 640,480 is used. You may also have noticed that we set the size to a given x,y value. It exists also a png terminal, but it produces uglier output and doesn’t use the UTF-8 encoding the cairo library does. You may have noticed that we use the pngcairo terminal. The png and svg terminals produce more or less the same looking output as the wxt terminal, so you only have to replace the line for the wxt terminal with set terminal pngcairo size 350, 262 enhanced font 'Verdana,10' set output 'introduction.png'įor png and with set terminal svg size 350, 262 fname 'Verdana' fsize 10 set output 'introduction.svg'įor svg to produce the same figures I have posted in the last chapter. We already used the wxt terminal there which displays the result on the screen: set terminal wxt size 350, 262 enhanced font 'Verdana,10' persist

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Therefore we will use the same code as in the previous plot functions chapter. In this tutorial we will cover the png, svg, postscript and epslatex terminals. Therefore it uses different output terminals that can produce output files or as in the last chapter display the output on your computer screen. Gnuplot gives us the opportunity to produce great looking plots in a lot of different formats. This and a solution to convert the lines to dashed versions is also mentioned in the plotting the world entry. Especially the dashed line of the grid is not created in the right way, even though the dashed option is used for the terminal. The last thing I would like to mention is the problem, that the output of the svg terminal is slightly different from the pngcairo terminal.

1 and why we should do this:ġ) change the default colors to more pleasant ones and make the lines a little bit thicker set style line 1 lc rgb '#8b1a0e' pt 1 ps 1 lt 1 lw 2 # - red set style line 2 lc rgb '#5e9c36' pt 6 ps 1 lt 1 lw 2 # - greenĢ) put the border more to the background by applying it only on the left and bottom part and put it and the tics in gray set style line 11 lc rgb '#808080' lt 1 set border 3 back ls 11 set tics nomirrorģ) add a slight grid to make it easier to follow the exact position of the curves set style line 12 lc rgb '#808080' lt 0 lw 1 set grid back ls 12 In the following I will have a look at the things we have to do to reach Fig. 2 Default output of the pngcairo terminal ( code to produce this figure, data)

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