locher@IASTATE.EDU (Locher Robert Carroll Iii) (06/19/91)
I wonder if anybody can point me to an X and Postscript plotting subroutine library that is more versatile than the ones I have seen so far. My wish list: ------------- 1.) Basic plotting stuff -- axes, points, etc. 2.) Nice text - Times Roman, other fonts, super/sub scripts, Greek letters, scientific symbols, etc. 3.) Publication-quality output (Postscript, 300 dpi) 4.) Editable output - curve legends, arbitrary legends, etc. 5.) Decent preview in X - ideally the program would be able to cause a window to appear with the preview instead of having to run other commands from an xterm window to see it. However I'd settle for anything that wasn't too scrunched. My biggest beef with the packages I've seen so far is that they try to produce device-independent graphics viewable on any conceivable graphics device, which means that the output inevitably looks like it was done on a plotter instead of using the power of Postscript. Also some are editable and some are not; some laugh at you if you want symbols or subscripts in axes or legends. Some make it far easier to print the sucker to preview it than do it at your terminal. Any comments would be most helpful. Reply by email or by post, or flame by email :-) Mercy Buckups, Rob Locher
peter@eclipse.ccs.uwo.ca (Mr. Peter Budgell) (06/19/91)
In article <1991Jun18.231323@IASTATE.EDU> locher@IASTATE.EDU (Locher Robert Carroll Iii) writes: >I wonder if anybody can point me to an X and Postscript plotting subroutine >library that is more versatile than the ones I have seen so far. .... > Rob Locher Have a look at the x-window implementation of grtool, which is available at the following sites. Note, it is not a subroutine library, but acts on ascii data which has been written to disk. Host ese3.ese.ogi.edu (129.95.20.62) Last updated 05:01 5 Jun 1991 Location: /pub/grtool FILE rw-r--r-- 308575 Dec 7 16:21 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Host sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca (129.100.100.12) Last updated 13:36 28 May 1991 Location: /donations FILE rw-r----- 308575 Mar 27 20:47 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Host aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de (134.95.80.1) Last updated 05:12 27 May 1991 Location: /windows/xcontrib FILE rw-rw-r-- 308575 May 26 21:14 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Host sun.soe.clarkson.edu (128.153.12.3) Last updated 05:06 21 May 1991 Location: /pub/src FILE rw-rw-r-- 309145 Apr 25 20:59 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Host slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com (132.158.82.36) Last updated 05:45 19 May 1991 Location: /pub/src/graphics/grtool FILE rw-r--r-- 308575 Feb 4 17:17 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Host rzs02.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (132.230.1.42) Last updated 06:11 18 May 1991 Location: /X11/contrib FILE rw-r--r-- 308575 Feb 7 23:09 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Host oersted.ltf.dth.dk (129.142.66.16) Last updated 05:26 14 May 1991 Location: /pub/XView FILE r--r--r-- 308575 Mar 25 14:17 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Host tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (192.35.229.9) Last updated 05:07 18 Apr 1991 Location: /pub/graphics/grtools FILE rw-r--r-- 308575 Mar 19 08:39 xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z Not only will it do postscript output, it can output files for inclusion in Framemaker, and for various devices. peter@engrg.uwo.ca
peter@eclipse.ccs.uwo.ca (Mr. Peter Budgell) (06/19/91)
Further to the request for plotting subroutines, take a look at the vg library of Fortran callable routines at: sunspot.ceee.nist.gov 129.6.64.151 which may be useful.