Octave on OSX Yosemite, doc print output, but the graph is solid black

Question

I used homebrew to set the octave, reboot the machine. I can successfully run the graphs and see how the graphs display normally. When I go to print them, the document retains the legend and axes, but the body of the graph is solid black. I tried this with png, pdf and jpg formats - anyway. I get a message that the fig2dev binary is not available. I was looking for what I was missing, but it seems that everything that was installed from the homegrown, that requires an octave. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The problem seems to be related to gnuplot 5 and Macs (see bug report ). I was able to solve this by completing, as suggested in the link, and lowering the guns to version 4.6.6.

brew switch gnuplot 4.6.6 

There is a lot of good information in this answer about installing certain versions of software in homegrown ones.