przemek@liszt.helios.nd.edu (Przemek Klosowski) (03/02/91)
Hello! I wonder if people out there could recommend a decent plotting program that: - will accept a simple file with data (but with flexible reading routine, that does not insist on exactly two numbers per line) and make a publication quality plot on laser printer. - has some way of previewing of the plot on PC or Tek terminal (for the reasons of modifiability I think that I rather prefer a program that uses a "declarative" description of a plot in a file over a WYSIWYG.) - would let me add frills (arrows, point, curve, axis and plot titles) if I need them later - generate output that is portable and can be included in a LaTeX document (in either EEPIC, PicTeX or Postscript or bitmap form) - be itself portable to different machines/operating systems (Unix and MSDOS, really, but I think I need source code) (for those that know GNUplot, it satisfies all conditions except the first: the figures look coarse AND there is no notion of error bars) The fourth requirement is important to me, as I was burned by using an otherwise excellent package from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, called Top Drawer, running on VAX/VMS. I acquired a big collection of data plots. Then my institution dumped the VAX and switched to a UNIX system, which is fine with me, except for the plots. So the bottom line: what do people use to plot their data? przemek -- przemek klosowski (przemek@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu) Physics Dept University of Notre Dame IN 46556