Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How can I draw plots in LaTeX?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It seems that PCTeX provides it's own editor, without a specific name, seen at the PCTeX6 Tour. As this seems to be proprietary, I suggest the same as Thorsten: ask the PCTeX support. PCTeX is not freely available, so we hardly can help you.

As PCTeX 6 has been released 2007, with some updates until 2011, this would not be my first choice, when I compare with newer releases such as TeX Live 2012 and MiKTeX 2.9.

I doubt that the official PCTeX6 forum would help much: the majority of questions hasn't got any answer.

Stefan

[ditka]

What abaut MikTex? How can that be done here?

I have instaled gnuplot.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you installed MiKTeX, you probably also installed TeXworks. Look for it in the start menu.

With TeXworks, go to the main menu: Edit / Preferences, choose the Typesetting tab, choose pdfLaTeX, click the Edit button, add --enable-write18 such as here:

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Stefan

[ditka]

I did what you say, but I still get the same picture.

Do I need to do anything else, perhaps in gnuplot?

I just download document and typsett it.

[localghost]

Since the settings for TeXworks differ a bit on Wind0ws, here is s screen capture for MiKTeX (see attachment).

[…] Do I need to do anything else, perhaps in gnuplot? […]

How did you install Gnuplot? The latest version 4.6 has an installer for the first time. You need to check a box in order to add the Gnuplot path to the corresponding environment variable (see attachment).

[ditka]

I did that(enable--write18,check Add application directory to your PATH environment variable), but I still get the same picture.

Do I need draw graphs in gnuplot first?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Gnuplot is called automatically. Perhaps post your .log file here, as attachment to a post. The log file contains information regarding the problem.

Stefan

[ditka]

I hope this is the right thing.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, this is the right file. I can see these warnings:

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Package pgf Warning: Plot data file `ndkskdkskdksdda-1.x.table' not found. on i
nput line 43.

Package pgf Warning: Plot data file `ndkskdkskdksdda-1.sin.table' not found. on
 input line 45.

Package pgf Warning: Plot data file `ndkskdkskdksdda-1.exp.table' not found. on
 input line 47.

Obiously gnuplot did not run, to produce the .table files.

I have another suggestion: instead of dealing with gnuplot problems, you could switch to pure TeX/LaTeX plotting. Since you now use a modern MiKTeX version, you could work with pgfplots. This is a very capable package for plotting with markers, axis, legends, in 2D and 3D. Perhaps have a look at the pgfplots documentation for a start with it, try some examples from the manual. If you have a question regarding pgfplots, just open a new topic.

Stefan

[localghost]

[…] I have another suggestion: instead of dealing with gnuplot problems, you could switch to pure TeX/LaTeX plotting. Since you now use a modern MiKTeX version, you could work with pgfplots. This is a very capable package for plotting with markers, axis, legends, in 2D and 3D. Perhaps have a look at the pgfplots documentation for a start with it, try some examples from the manual. […]

As far as I know, pgfplots uses Gnuplot as back-end. So the problem would persist.