%%name: plotutils

%%short-description: Plotting and graphics utilities.

%%full-description: The GNU plotutils package contains software for
both programmers and technically oriented users. Its centerpiece is
the libplot/libplotter, a C/C++ function lib for exporting 2-D
vector graphics in many file formats (including WebCGM format,
 recommended by the graphics Activity of the W3 Consortium). It can
 also do vector graphics animations, has thread-safe APIs, and
 supports the use of Posix threads (if available).

The program also contains the following command-line programs for
plotting scientific data:
<pre>
	 graph- plots 2-D datasets or data streams in real time
	 plot- translates metafile formats to any of the other formats
	 tek2plot- translates legacy Textronix data to any of the
	 above formats
	 pic2plot- translates the pic language to any of the other
	 formats
	 plotfont- displays character maps of the fonts available in
	 the above formats.
	 spline- spline interpolation of data
	 ode- numerically integrates ordinary differential equations  
</pre>
%%category: graphics, science, statistics

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Robert S. Maier  <rsm@math.arizona.edu>

%%interface: Command line

%%updated: October 7, 1999

%%keywords: Plotting, 2D, animations, vector graphics, graph

%%programs: libplotter, graph, plot, tek2plot, pic2plot, plotfont, spline, ode

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.fsf.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html

%%support:

%%doc: User on-line manual included

%%developers: Robert Maier <rsm@math.arizona.edu>, Nick Tufillaro
<nbt@reed.edu>

%%contributors: 

%%sponsors:

%%source: ftp:://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu

%%debian: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/math/plotutils.html

%%redhat:

%%repository:

%%related: Libxmi
	   Piechart plotting program available at
www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~breiter/tools/piechart/piecharts.en.html
	   SWIG wrapper (lets you call libplot functions from Python)
	    available at www.swig.org
	   Perl module for libplotter available at
	   http://w3.man.torum.pl/~makler/prog/libplot (needs perl at
	   least v. 5.002, C++ compiler, and plotutils 2.2 or later)

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%%version:  2.3 stable released 7 Oct 1999

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%%bug-list: bug-plotutils@gnu.org










 





