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New Re: I'm a big fan of gnuplot.
I've used gnuplot under Solaris for several years. Nice package. Still haven't found a good way to generate pretty postscript output and then convert the result to png in a shell script, tho, so I just use the crude png output. My attempts at using Image Magick to do the conversions have been less than satisfactory.
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New Dunno about the Solaris version...
The Winders version is up to 4.4 now and the terminals are undergoing rapid updates.

My (rather clunky) workflow is still:

a) Generate the data; construct the gnuplot script from a previous template.
b) Run gnuplot and generate an EPS file.
c) Feed the EPS into ghostscript/GSView to display it.
d) Maximize the graph on the screen.
e) Do a window-interior capture with PMView.
f) For a publication graph, change the DPI to 600 then change the X-dimension to 3.35" wide.
g) Save the file as a TIF.

I started using the PostScript terminal because that was the simplest way to get presentation-quality graphics and "enhanced text". It looks like the PNG terminal can do that on its own now - http://gnuplot.sourc...nhanced_utf8.html - but you'd probably want to use a different font with it (as in the SVG demo of the same script - http://gnuplot.sourc...nhanced_utf8.html ).

There have been many enhancements to gnuplot since I started doing things that way (e.g. it has a canvas property now and can generate many enhanced bitmaps/SVGs directly), and the default GUI has been enhanced with wxWidgets, but some of us oldsters can be set in our ways. ;-)

Ooh. Version 4.5 (in development) will have an HTML5 Canvas element - http://www.gnuplot.info/demo_canvas/

I dunno how much of this has been ported to Solaris, though the OS/2 version seems to still be worked on.

HTH!

Cheers,
Scott.
     What should I use for making graphs on a website? - (drook) - (9)
         I'm a big fan of gnuplot. - (Another Scott) - (2)
             Re: I'm a big fan of gnuplot. - (rcsteiner) - (1)
                 Dunno about the Solaris version... - (Another Scott)
         HighCharts is good - (malraux) - (4)
             That's pretty snazzy! Thanks for the pointer. -NT - (Another Scott)
             Ooh, shiny - (drook) - (2)
                 File side... - (malraux) - (1)
                     Downloaded it, will try to play with it today -NT - (drook)
         Found a PEAR package: Image_Graph - (drook)

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