within the gnuplot when i created svg file using the svg terminal, the svg file couldnt open using inkscape or other viewer.

example:
gnuplot> set term svg
Terminal type set to 'svg'
Options are 'size 600 480 fixed fname 'Arial' fsize 12 butt '
gnuplot> set out "test.svg"
gnuplot> plot [0:1] x**2
then when i tried to open the test.svg, it is nt working giving me an error
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: file:///home/..../test.svg
Line Number 103, Column 1:



But when i made a script using the above commands
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$emacs scriptfile&
scriptfile contains:
gnuplot> set term svg
Terminal type set to 'svg'
Options are 'size 600 480 fixed fname 'Arial' fsize 12 butt '
gnuplot> set out "test.svg"
gnuplot> plot [0:1] x**2
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and used gnuplot in the following way

...@..:~$ gnuplot scriptfile

it indeed worked and i can open the test.svg.

any explanation of what went wrong in the first case??

gnuplot version:
(G N U P L O T Version 4.2 System: debian sid/lenny Linux 2.6.17-2-686)

Thanks
Sree

I have had a similar problem with generating SVG graphs witrh GNUPLOT, where in order to generate a correct SVG file, i would have to run the script twice.

Thank you so much for this question and the suggestion to run the script twice

It's easy to understand what's happening: when you set the terminal in gnuplot a file stream is opened with the name you give to the output. This file is closed, and consequently flushed, when you exit gnuplot. If you look at the error given by inkview and seek at the output file for the problem you'll see that the file is lacking of the closing tag </svg> because gnuplot doesn't flush the buffer. You have two alternatives: you can edit the output file and append to the end the missing tag, or you can exit gnuplot and all the open files will be automatically flushed.
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EDU

Another way to flush seams to be calling 'set output "blabla"' or some other new output filename.
I still have a problem, that the generated svgs are bugged though. The box is strange and the plot doesn't appear.

Seeing the same thing here (gnuplot 4.2 and inkscape 0.46). It seems that playing around with the opacity of the objects will make them appear (in black and white). They are 100% opaque, but if you select everything, drop to 99 and then back to 100, the plots and axes appear.

This renders perfectly in Firefox (3.0.7).

unset output

flushes the output and draws the .svg
Thanks for your discussion here which helped me find the answer!

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