Re: dashtypes not showing in "test"
Kevin Oberman <[email protected]>
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Thanks, Ethan. On to plan 'B'. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 7:11 PM Ethan Merritt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 30 May 2020 17:59:18 PDT Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I wanted to pick a dashtype for a plot so tried "test" to see defaults. > > gnuplot> set term gif size 1024, 600 > > > > Terminal type is now 'gif' > > Options are 'nocrop enhanced size 1024,600 font "arial,12.0" ' > > gnuplot> set colors classic > > gnuplot> set output "test.gif > > gnuplot> test > > gnuplot> quit > > > > The dashtypes are all identical solid lines (gif attached but may not > make > > it through filters). > > > > v5.2p8 on FreeBSD 12.1. > > Is this a known issue? > > Yes. > The terminals based on libgd (gif/jpeg/png) do not support dashed lines. > That is a limitation of the library. > > Unfortunately if you need specifically gif there isn't another > direct output option in gnuplot. You would have to use e.g. > pngcairo and convert it to gif in a separate step. > > Ethan > > > > _______________________________________________ gnuplot-info mailing list [email protected] Membership management via: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-info