Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/30/10:33:13
Ploticus is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Ploticus is
command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data.
Ploticus is good for automated or just-in-time graph generation. With
ploticus you can use 'prefabs' to quickly create common types of graphs,
or write scripts to get full control. Ploticus can make scatter, bar,
box, range, vector, pie, and venn charts, and offers curve fitting,
multiple axes and plot areas, legends, and text overlays. It allows
significant user control over colors, styles, options and details. It
handles date and time data nicely, and has basic statistical capabilities.
The results can be output to an X11 display or as PNG, JPEG, WBMP, SVG,
PS, or EPS images. Ploticus can also generate image maps and mouseover
labels, for inclusion into Web pages.
Ploticus is divided into four packages in Cygwin:
ploticus:
Ploticus executable and test suite. Please note that although the
ploticus manual refers to the ploticus executable as 'pl', in Cygwin
its name is /usr/bin/ploticus. (The name /usr/bin/pl is already taken
by a file in the SWI-Prolog package.) You must either substitute
'ploticus' in place of 'pl' everywhere, or else create a symlink, e.g.
from /usr/local/bin/pl to /usr/bin/ploticus. This should work just
fine as long as you don't have the SWI-Prolog package installed.
libploticus:
Static library of ploticus functions, for inclusion into C programs.
See http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/api.html for documentation of
the libploticus API.
ploticus-common:
Prefabs. ploticus and libploticus both depend on this package, so you
shouldn't have to explicitly select it for installation.
ploticus-doc:
HTML documentation, gallery, and examples. If you don't mind going
online to read the ploticus documentation, then you don't need to
install this package.
Source homepage: http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/
License: GPL
Please address questions and bug reports to the Cygwin mailing list
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>.
Andrew E. Schulman
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