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gnuplot

Version 5.4.6

Visualize mathematical functions and data.

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gnuplot overview

gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive datafile (text or binary) and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Apple Mac, VMS, Atari and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. It does this job pretty well, and in addition it serves as non-interactive plotting engine for miscellaneous portable third-party applications, like Octave. Gnuplot is developed and supported since 1986, and having its scripts and commands easy to understand text files, it is time-portable as well.

Gnuplot supports various kinds of plots. In 2D, it can draw line, point, dot, box, histogram graphs or vector fields. In 3D, it supports line, point and dot surfaces, with or without hidden line removal. It supports color or grayscale surfaces and maps, even for non-equidistant and non-rectangular 3D data, otherwise it offers data gridding.

Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals: interactive screen terminals (with mouse and hotkey functionality), pen plotters (like hpgl), printers (including postscript and many color devices), and printings to output file as vectorial pseudo-devices like LaTeX, metafont, pdf, svg, or bitmap png. Gnuplot is easily extensible to include new devices.

What’s new in version 5.4.6

Updated on Feb 14 2023

New
  • set key {columns }
  • set key {keywidth }
XDG support
  • startup file: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnuplot/gnuplotrc
  • history file: $XDG_STATE_HOME/gnuplot_history
  • wxt configuration: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnuplot/gnuplot-wxt.conf
Change
  • remove "alldoc" build target
  • plot with polygons fillstyle empty really does mean empty
Fixes
  • windows: various problems mixing piped input and stdin Bug #2491
  • x11: bad interactions of lt nodraw, bgnd and dash pattern Bug #2572
  • wxt: export-to-file widget should preserve line properties
  • svg: set initial default fill to "none"
  • png: back-compatibility with very old versions of gdlib Bug #2579
  • variable pointtype, pointsize in plot style yerrorlines
  • border color for polygons with variable fillcolor
  • definition followed by iteration in a plot command Bug #2580
  • parametric plot with filledcurves y1= Bug #1797

Information

License

Free

Size

5.7 MB

Developer’s website

http://www.gnuplot.info/

Downloads

74053

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • Intel 32
  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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SickTeddyBear
SickTeddyBear
Mar 14 2011
4.4.3
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Mar 14 2011
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Version: 4.4.3
FYI, this is also available for installation via MacPorts.
Thierry46
Thierry46
Nov 10 2010
4.4.2
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Nov 10 2010
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Version: 4.4.2
Hello Here is an additional comment to JIMCLARK01's tips to compile gnuplot 4.4.2 under Snow Leopard (Mac OS X.6) with PNG, JPEG output available : X11 should be installed on your computer (From Mac OSX install DVD). gnuplot needs libgd library to support graphics output formats like PNG. You have to install libgd first and to link gnuplot with it. 1 - Download libraries JPEG (jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz), FreeType 2.4.3, and GD 2.0.35 (Find them on the Web, copy the .tar.gz file in a directory , uncompact them with the Finder) Then in a terminal window : 2 - Install lib jpeg-6b : cd jpeg-6b cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub . cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess . ./configure --enable-static --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib make sudo make install sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a Library will be put be in /usr/local : /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a Remarks : --enable-shared don't work make install produce an error with doc, ignore it. 3 - Install freetype-2.4.3 cd freetype-2.4.3 ./configure make sudo make install 4 - Install libgd cd gd-2.0.35 sudo ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig /usr/local/include sudo cp -r /usr/X11/include/*png* /usr/local/include ./configure --with-x --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --with-png=/usr/X11 make sudo make install 5 - rebuild gnuplot ./configure --with-readline=bsd --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib Verify here that png terminals are detected in configure's output make sudo make install 6 - To make libgd support fonts export GDFONTPATH=$HOME/Library/Fonts:/Library/Fonts:/System/Library/Fonts before you launch gnuplot or put GDFONTPATH initialization in your ~/.bash_profile
dieguico
dieguico
Jan 20 2011
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Jan 20 2011
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