[1866] in Athena Bugs
matlab printing does not work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 7 16:06:20 1989
From: <drmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: ellis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 89 16:05:38 EST
Hello,
The print.m file for matlab, which executes the print command
has a problem. It tries to create a temporary file in the current
directory, but also requires that the commands 'gpp' and 'print.m' be in
the current directory. Since /mit/courseware/matlab is read only, the
only way to get something to print out is to copy 'gpp' and 'print.m' to
your home directory or '/usr/tmp' and print out from there.
The fix: a new print.m file with /tmp:
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%PRINT Send the graph currently on the screen to a local printer.
% If no argument is specified, the plot is sent to the default printer.
% To print on a specific printer, pass the postscript printer name as
% a quoted string:
% print('linus')
%
function print(printer)
meta /tmp/metatmp % Put current plot into temporary metafile
!csh -c "gpp /tmp/metatmp -dps" % Invoke GPP, creating device specific output
delete /tmp/metatmp.met % Delete temporary metafile
if nargin == 0
!lpr -r /tmp/metatmp.ps % Spool device specific output to printer
else
eval(['!lpr -r -P',printer,' /tmp/metatmp.ps'])
end
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I have *no* matlab programing experience, so don't blindly put into
matlab without looking at it. However, it seems to work.
Athena Consultant
Dave Morrison
