re need pd x y plot package steve steve frysinger of blue feather farm spf cbnewsl cb att com writes steve folks steve i m looking for a public domain x y plotting package for x steve i need basic capabilities axes labels log and linear c steve it s hard to imagine that someone has not put such a thing steve together so i m hoping to avoid reinventing the wheel steve thanks for any leads steve steve frysinger your might take a look a plplot version c actually beta v can be found anonymous ftp from hagar ph utexas edu in the pub plplot directory mark mark stucky email united technologies research center mark ardnt res utc com east hartford ct or mbs rcinet res utc com or mbs utrc res utc com from the readme file of version c this is the plplot distribution plplot is a scientific plotting package for many systems small micro and large super alike despite its small size and quickness it has enough power to satisfy most users including standard x y plots semilog plots log log plots contour plots d plots mesh plots bar charts and pie charts multiple graphs of the same or different sizes may be placed on a single page with multiple lines in each graph different line styles widths and colors are supported a virtually infinite number of distinct area fill patterns may be used there are almost characters in the extended character set this includes four different fonts the greek alphabet and a host of mathematical musical and other symbols the fonts can be scaled to any size for various effects many different output device drivers are available system dependent including a portable metafile format and renderer the plplot package is freely distributable but not in the public domain the plplot source code except header files and those files explicitly granting permission may not be used in a commercial software package without consent of the authors you are allowed and encouraged to include the plplot object library and header files in a commercial package provided that it is explicitly and prominently stated that the plplot library is freely available and the full copyrights on the plplot package be displayed somewhere in the documentation for the package we welcome suggestions on how to improve this code especially in the form of user contributed enhancements or bug fixes if plplot is used in any published papers please include an acknowledgment or citation of our work which will help us to continue improving plplot also please remember that as plplot is not a commercial product we cannot be expected to offer the kind of support that a commercial product may there is great interest in extending plplot and fixing bugs but the principal authors can only afford to work on it part time improvements will necessarily focus on those which help us get our work done plplot is written in c enabling it to run on many platforms practically without modification fortran programs may use it transparently stub routines are provided to handle the c fortran interface without any modification of the user program c programs are required to include the header file plplot h see the documentation for more details the main documentation for plplot is in the doc directory in the form of several tex files please consult this for additional information latex plotdoc unfortunately documentation tends to lag actual improvements to the code so don t be surprised if some known features are not explained there consult changes log to see a list of recent changes at present plplot is known to work on the following systems unix sunos a ix hp ux unicos dg ux ultrix sysv linux amiga exec ms dos os next for more information on how to get or use plplot on your system see appendices to the plplot manual system specific documentation in the appropriate sys system directory to become a subscriber to the plplot mailing list send a request to plplot request dino ph utexas edu credits plplot is the result of the effort of many people so it is impractical to list all the contributors those currently supporting and otherwise responsible for the package in its present form include maurice lebrun please send all comments flames patches etc to me i am responsible for all the plplot kernel development as well as most of the work on the metafile xwindow xterm postscript tektronix and amiga drivers email mjl fusion ph utexas edu usmail dr maurice lebrun institute for fusion studies university of texas austin tx geoff furnish please send questions regarding the ms dos and os drivers to geoff email furnish fusion ph utexas edu usmail geoff furnish institute for fusion studies university of texas austin tx tony richardson creator of plplot b please send questions regarding installation of plplot on the next to tony email amr egr duke edu usmail tony richardson tony richardson electrical engineering chapel hill road apt d duke university durham nc durham nc ph ph
