Re: error: print.m: PDFLATEXSTANDALONE output is not available

[Ben Abbott]

> On Jul 13, 2015, at 12:42 AM, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 07/12/2015 07:38 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> On Jul 12, 2015, at 5:59 PM, John W. Eaton<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> After recent changes, I'm seeing this error:
>>> 
>>> error: print.m: PDFLATEXSTANDALONE output is not available for the Gnuplot 
>>> graphics toolkit
>>> error: called from
>>>    __gnuplot_print__ at line 147 column 7
>>>    print at line 429 column 14
>>>    plotimages at line 104 column 7
>>> 
>>> Is it just me?  Am I missing something?  I have gnuplot version 4.6 
>>> patchlevel 6 on a Debian system.
>>> 
>>> jwe
>> 
>> For gnuplot 4.6 the terminals which support “standalone” are ...
>> 
>> cairolatex
>> context
>> epslatex
>> pslatex
>> 
>> The standalone option for opengl toolkits support is based upon the function 
>> latex_standalone() in print.m.  I recall that I had intended to use this for 
>> -dpdflatexstandalone when using gnuplot. Perhaps I overlooked implementing 
>> the functionality or perhaps it was inadvertently changed? (easy to miss 
>> that the pdfstandalone is not supported by gnuplot).
> 
> Because gnuplot has such a wide variety of terminals to use, I guess I would 
> prefer to use the gnuplot terminals to match as closely as possible the 
> various Octave outputs, and if there is one missing then not try to 
> substitute.  Just let the user figure out how to handle the output format, 
> e.g., epslatex instead.  Nonetheless, I think pdflatexstandalone can be 
> achieved in some way with the cairolatex terminal:
> 
> cairolatex
> 
> The cairolatex terminal device generates encapsulated PostScript (*.eps) or 
> PDF output using the cairo and pango support libraries and uses LaTeX for 
> text output using the same routines as the epslatex terminal.
> 
> Syntax:
> 
>      set terminal cairolatex
>                     {eps | pdf}
>                     {standalone | input}
>                     {blacktext | colortext | colourtext}
>                     {header <header> | noheader}
>                     {mono|color}
>                     {{no}transparent} {{no}crop} {background <rgbcolor>}
>                     {font <font>} {fontscale <scale>}
>                     {linewidth <lw>} {rounded|butt|square} {dashlength <dl>}
>                     {size <XX>{unit},<YY>{unit}}
> 
> I've never tried it, but I'm guessing that the pdflatexstandalone implies the 
> destination is the pdflatex program and not common latex. If it doesn't 
> create exactly what is needed, then I can go to the gnuplot discussion list 
> and see if it makes sense to add a pdflatex terminal.
> 
> Dan

From gnuplot, the following commands produced a tex-file with the expected 
filename.tex and filename-inc.pdf files.

        set terminal cairolatex pdf standalone
        set output “filename.tex”
        plot sin(x)

Then running “pdflatex fiilename.tex” (bash shell) produced the expected 
filename.pdf file.

Ben