Re: [OT] $DISPLAY screwing up with EPS when matlab run in background?

From: yongtao yang (yongtao.yang_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:25:26 +0200
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    On 4/29/05, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    > (I posted this in comp.soft-sys.matlab but got no response, so I am
    > trying my luck here)
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > (matlab version: (version 6.5.1.199709 (R13) Service Pack 1) )
    > I am trying to run a matlab function I wrote in the background. The
    > function plots the color histogram of a given image, opens the plot
    > window and prints out the figure to an EPS file. When I run the function
    > from within a matlab session, everything works fine. But when I run it
    > in background, problem arises in the eps file generated.
    >
    > I have a bunch of images to make histograms of. So I wrote a shell
    > script which calls matlab in the background and runs the function over
    > all the images. However, I do not get a proper EPS file. The resulting
    > file is just tiny little white square. The output file of the background
    > session does not report any errors.
    >

    That seems to be a known bug of Matlab 6.X, basically matlab need the
    $DISPLAY variable to get correct dimensions of the figures. There is
    no work around.

    However MATLAB7.X had fixed that bug.

    HTH 

    -- 
Yongtao Yang
email: yongtao.yang@gmail.com
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