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On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:31 PM, keitho AT strucktower DOT com wrote:

> Hi Vladimir-
> 
> Thanks for responding!
> 
> I looked over gnuplot as you suggested, but way too complex for my needs,
> and I didn't see a way to export anyway.
> 
> I will try the ngspice-help list as you suggest and see if anyone there
> has other ideas.
> 
> Thanks again,
> keith
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 07:51:55PM -0700, keitho AT strucktower DOT com wrote:
>>> Hi all-
>>> 
>>> I'm using ngspice on Linux/Debian. I guess the graphing/plots are done
>>> using X11 by default? I haven't figured out how to export my graphs to
>>> PNG's so that I can send them in emails to folks helping me learn. Is
>>> there a way to do that, or do you recommend using a different program
>>> for
>>> graphing the plots that provides that feature?
>> 

1. Use a screen capture utility to get the screen image from the ngspice plot.

or

2. Use "hardcopy myplot.ps" in place of "plot". That'll get you postscript, from which a number of programs can obtain png.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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