How to save plots as colorful .eps in octave

Question

I am using win7 and octave 3.6.4, when i generate a plot with octave and save as .eps its colors go away. For example :

clf(); surf(peaks);

generates following graphic enter image description here

But when i run the following codes seperately

saveas (1,"test.eps") or print (1,"test.eps") or print -deps test.eps

to save the graphic as .eps and import it into latex it becomes grayscale. enter image description here

that's a weird problem. Did you try to open the eps file in another program to check if it has colour? Are you sure the problem is not in the LaTeX side? — carandraug
– carandraug, Commented Dec 16, 2013 at 14:52

am304 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-16 15:04:08Z

9

Try

print -depsc test.eps

or

print -color -depsc test.eps

if the first one doesn't work.

EDIT:

Which graphics toolkit are you using? with gnuplot, it works just fine for me (Octave 3.6.2, Win XP) using the -eps flag.

edited Dec 16, 2013 at 15:04

answered Dec 16, 2013 at 9:24

am304

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carandraug Over a year ago

pkg load gnuplot? Don't you mean graphics_toolkit gnuplot?

am304 Over a year ago

No, I did mean pkg load gnuplot, but actually it was when using the qt graphics toolkit which gave me errors when trying to print to eps. Loading the gnuplot package got rid of the errors, but I was still unable to print. I then switched to the gnuplot graphics toolkit and I was able to print successfully. I will remove this from my answer as it's irrelevant. Thanks for pointing it out.

David · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-31 23:01:45Z

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you can use

print -dtex test.tex

Octave automatically exports your figure into LaTeX/Color EPS figure, with LaTeX fonts.

answered Aug 31, 2015 at 23:01

David

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user2138149 Over a year ago

What do you do with the output .tex file?

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