Posts tagged ‘ghostscript’
Gnuplot details
May 28th, 2012 at 10:26 pm by Dr. Drang
Yesterday’s post about accelerometers included two plots, both of which were made with Gnuplot. I thought I’d do a short explanation of the techniques I used and why I usually make my plots a different way. Except for the functions themselves and the ranges, the plots were made with the same set of commands, so…
Maintaining the BoundingBox in ps2pdf
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:46 am by Dr. Drang
I have a bunch of Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) graphics that I’ve accumulated over the years—logos, letterheads, and other little image/text combinations that I use for company documents. Most of these were written directly in PostScript and have a BoundingBox set in the document header, like this: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%Title: Letterhead %%BoundingBox: 0 0 534 72…
More automated plots
June 2nd, 2011 at 11:16 pm by Dr. Drang
Three years ago I wrote a post describing how I used Gnuplot to generate monthly Iraq (and now Afghanistan) casualty charts. With a newer version on Gnuplot and my recent eps2png script, the system is now more streamlined, and I thought it was worth a brief description. I’m not doing this because I think you’re…
Converting Gnuplot graphs with Ghostscript
May 26th, 2011 at 9:01 pm by Dr. Drang
I have to generate graphs quite often, and in the last week or so I spent some time thinking about how I could make the process go more smoothly. After going down a few blind alleys, I came up with two scripts that do what I want. Before we look at the scripts, you should…
