About:
gnuplot plots 2d and 3d graphs, from a data file or with a formula. It has an interactive mode with online help, or it can be used non-interactively. gnuplot does function fitting to data sets, and it does output to many terminals, among which are PostScript, X11 display, PNG, and GIF (via the old gd library).

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
Bugfixes, support for GNU plotutils, display drivers for BeOS, metapost, and MacOS X Server, and improvements in the documentation and build-process.

Author:
Thomas Williams, Colin Kelly [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.50/10.00 (16 votes)

Homepage:
http://gnuplot.sf.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuplot/gnuplot-4.2.0.tar.gz
Bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2055&atid=102055
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=2055
Mirror site:
http://www.gnuplot.info/
Demo site:
http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Freely Distributable
[Topic]		Scientific/Engineering

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.2	05-Mar-2007	Freely Distributable

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.2	Major feature enhancements	05-Mar-2007 01:10
4.0.0	Major feature enhancements	17-Apr-2004 06:57
3.7.3	N/A	03-Feb-2003 01:17
3.7.1	N/A	24-Nov-1999 23:13
3.7	N/A	23-Jan-1999 20:02

 Comments

[»] very good, mature software
by Ben Crowell - Jun 1st 2002 19:37:59

This is very good, mature software. I recommend it highly. My only complaint is that the manual and the built-in documentation are hard to use -- there aren't enough examples, and the discussion of one topic often assumes knowledge of some other topic, but it's hard to find the information on the other topic.

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[»] Re: very good, mature software
by rainer - Jul 12th 2002 08:30:34


> This is very good, mature software. I
> recommend it highly. My only complaint
> is that the manual and the built-in
> documentation are hard to use -- there
> aren't enough examples, and the
> discussion of one topic often assumes
> knowledge of some other topic, but it's
> hard to find the information on the
> other topic.

It does not support incremental plotting. Creating a
'publication-quality' graph is next to impossible. And it
is omnipresent ... probably due to a lack of any advanced
free graph plotting tool/language (i.e. a free equivalent of
IDL).

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[»] Re: very good, mature software
by atoku - Mar 5th 2004 23:52:08


>
> % This is very good, mature software. I
> % recommend it highly. My only
> complaint
> % is that the manual and the built-in
> % documentation are hard to use --
> there
> % aren't enough examples, and the
> % discussion of one topic often assumes
> % knowledge of some other topic, but
> it's
> % hard to find the information on the
> % other topic.
>
>
>
> It does not support incremental
> plotting. Creating a
> 'publication-quality' graph is next to
> impossible. And it
> is omnipresent ... probably due to a
> lack of any advanced
> free graph plotting tool/language (i.e.
> a free equivalent of
> IDL).
Actually, IDL sucks. We could not use it for real-time preparation of pictures for our web site. However, CVS version of gnuplot is good enough and script language is good enough to do this job.



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