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From: anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen)
Subject: Re: printing plots
Keywords: Norden Patches
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 06:12:30 GMT

jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell) writes:
| > i've just started using gnuplot and have a couple questions:
| > i can plot my data with 'plot "file-name" with <style>' and it
| > prints it out on the sun workstation.  now my question is how do i
| > output it to another file in post script or anything else of that
| > nature.  so basically, how do i save it into a postscript file.
| > 
| > thanks in advance!
| > 
| > -totoro@cats.ucsc.edu
|
| .....
|
| Note that Jeff Norden has developed a lot of neat patches in the
| past that we might discuss further.  One of his was a method to
| mix interactive screen graphic activities with printing activities:
|
| set printer terminal_type
| print   (with no arguments)
|
| Thus the command plot would stay on the screen and print would send
| the last plot or splot (by doing a replot) to the printer.  He allowed 
| print with arguments to remain backward compatible.  I've incorporated 
| his patches in some of the earlier gnuplots (up to 3.1 I believe) and 
| found them quite useful.  
|
This is a great Idea.
I would however also change the

   set output "filename/device"

to mean the output for `screen' plots and

   set prt_output "filename/device"

for the printer.

This output filename I'd also change to accept the syntax

   set output "|command"

so the output can be directed to a command.

The defaults for gnuplot could then be set (optionally) to say

  set terminal    x11
  set output      "|gnuplot_x11"
  set printer     postscript
  set prt_output  "|lpr"

Thus 
   ``plot'' will plot to the terminals file/device/command
&  ``print'' will replot to the printer file/device/command

This should also eliminate the need for the special coding required
for X windows as it will be part of the main program and not the
actual device driver.

--- Anthony Thyssen

PS: to those in the news group that didn't know, I was the person
to invent the ``using'' plot parameter for ploting data-files. (1989)


  Anthony Thyssen - (CIT, Griffith University)       anthony@cit.gu.edu.au
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From: yi@fife.ecn.purdue.edu (Juneho Yi)
Subject: looking for a GNUPLOT manual
Keywords: gnuplot, manual
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:35:57 GMT

Hi, I am new to this group.
Where can I get a manual or book on GNUPLOT ?
I am using LaTex with GNUPLOT for papers. 
I have difficulty in including figures in text in various format.
I will post the reponses I get.
Please respond to me directly to my e-mail address.
Thank you.

-- yi
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From: brp@muttley (Bruce Raoul Parnas)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Lowest common denominator too low?
Date: 8 Oct 1992 20:15:54 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: muttley.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct8.184302.11580@access.usask.ca> eric@skatter.usask.ca writes:
>I realize that one of gnuplot's claims to fame is its ability to produce
>Our `terminal type' is almost always some form of `postscript' so the extra
>characters could be produced if only there was some way to specify this
>to gnuplot.
>
>Any thoughts on how to add support for non-ASCII characters in gnuplot?

I make a lot of Postscript plots from Gnuplot that require Greek for
labels.  What I do is use a postscript previewer (I use Pageview under
Openwindows on a Sparc) that allows editing of the postscript.  Then I
just go in and add what I want.  The drawback is that it requires a
knowledge of postscript, but Gnuplot postscript is very straightforward
and always looks basically the same.  So, after doing it a few times it's
easy to find the stuff you want.

This may, of course, not be helpful for people who don't want to
monkey with the postscript.



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From: rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman)
Subject: Re: symmetric polar plots
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 21:10:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.020336.2978@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen) writes:
>rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman) writes:
>|
>| plot myborder(theta) title "", mydata(r,theta) title "mytitle"
>|
>| Radey Shouman					rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu
>
>Great -- This is something which I also find anonying however what if
>I still what it to print the entry but with no text -- I have done this
>myself.  A better idea is to use a new option ``notitle''
>
>  Anthony Thyssen - (CIT, Griffith University)       anthony@cit.gu.edu.au

I, personally, can't imagine wanting a key entry with no title, but I
suppose one should have that option.

I just fixed my copy of gnuplot-3.1 to do just this, anyone who wants
them is welcome to the diffs.  Where does one send these things so that
they might be incorporated in a new release?

--Radey Shouman


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From: eric@skatter.usask.ca
Subject: Lowest common denominator too low?
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:43:02 GMT

I realize that one of gnuplot's claims to fame is its ability to produce
output on an extremely wide range of output devices.  Unfortunately, this
is causing problems for a number of users here.

Many of users here would like to put special characters (especially Greek)
in their axis labels, plot titles, etc.  Physicists are *real* big on Greek...

Our `terminal type' is almost always some form of `postscript' so the extra
characters could be produced if only there was some way to specify this
to gnuplot.

Any thoughts on how to add support for non-ASCII characters in gnuplot?

--
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Research Engineer              phone: (306) 966-6308
Accelerator Laboratory
University of Saskatchewan
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From: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Organization: Ford Motor Company Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:24:19 GMT

I downloaded the file wgnuplot.zip from ftp.cica.indiana.edu (found it
in pub/pc/win3/util.  It seems to run OK, but I noticed that is
crashes when trying the plot with "set contour3d".  Any suggestions or
comments?  I did not see the source code there.
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Subject: Gateway test
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:05:00 CDT
From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Info-Gnuplot,

This is being sent to info-gnuplot@arc.nasa.gov to see if it gets
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Please do not reply or follow-up.

Thank you,
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From: jdaves@triton.unm.edu (Jonathan Daves-Brody)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 15:22:15 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: pkzip problem solution

In article <1992Oct6.132811.7892@vela.acs.oakland.edu> jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.005133.15482@netcom.com> wongi@netcom.com (Isaac Wong) writes:
>>In article <yrdpd#p@lynx.unm.edu> jdaves@triton.unm.edu (Jonathan Daves-Brody) writes:
>>>>>
>>>I tried to get that version, but was unable to decompress the executable part
>>>of it - pkzip claimed errors.  It did unzip the textfile parts of the zipped
>>>file, just not the executables.  Has anybody else had this problem?  Is it
>>>a problem with the file on Cica?  Is it a problem with my version of pkzip?
>>
>>I downloaded it on oct 4th and it worked fine for me (so far)
>>
>>BTW. it'd be nice if the author would make the source code available too.
>>
>
>I got it to work.  It's pretty nice.  The help is also quite easy to use.
>I got the program from wuarchive under mirrors2.  Before I got it to work
>I tried an older version of pkzip and it reported problems.  I got unzip50.exe
>from the other mirror's zip directory and the unzip.exe program that it
>produced worked perfectly.
>
Yes, unzip50 does work.  Thanks to all who replied!  I found unzip50 on
garbo in /pc/arcers, and now gnuplot works fine!

Thanks, yours, JDB.


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From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Re: File Difference
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:05:23 GMT

On Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:08:29 GMT, rlove@den.mmc.com (Robert B. Love 7-1842) said:
> Nntp-Posting-Host: baldy

> I don't know what happened to my 1st post--the head was cut off. I want
> to difference two files.  They will be identical in format with the 1st
> column having the x values and the 2nd column will have the y values.
> What I want is a graph of x vs y1-y2.  Can GNUplot do this?

You don't need gnuplot to do this, just unix:

% paste file1 file2 > file3
% awk '{print $1" "$2-$4}' < file3 > file4

Now in gnuplot you just need to plot file4 columns 1 and 2.

John
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From: staubach@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Holger Staubach)
Subject: Fullsize Postscript
Keywords: postscript
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 10 Oct 92 18:33:04 GMT


Hi there,

how to print a plot with a POSTSCRIPT Printer using the full size
of Page ?
The print is in the middle of the page, and there are large margins.
The command SET SIZE 2,2 make the plot large, but it is printed
in the right corner of page and it is uncomplete.

Thanks

Holger Staubach

staubach@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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From: bader@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Joel Bader)
Subject: lines in latex
Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation, Department of Chemistry,
	Columbia University
Distribution: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:30:01 GMT

Hello,
When I use latex output to plot multiple lines on the same graph,
the first line is thin, the second line is thicker, etc.
Is it possible to get dotted or dashed lines instead of
thicker lines?
E-mail responses are fine.
Thanks,
Joel Bader
bader@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:13:30 -0400
From: david@marge.niddk.nih.gov
Subject: GNUPLOT
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hi,
  I have just installed GNUPLOT at NIH, and it works well. There are several
things I haven't been able to do:
1) How can I control the width of the line in the "lines" style?
2) How can I get rid of the legend about the name of the file which was 
   plotted?
3) How can I plot several graphs on the same page? It is possible to make a
graph smaller using "size", but what is the command that can "move" the 
graph, so several small graph will be plotted together?
  Thank you in advance,
  David Golomb
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
Subject: Re: GNUplot for MS Windows?
Reply-To: hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen)
Organization: Division of Marine Engineering
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 07:10:35 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.235151.29349@leland.Stanford.EDU>, jbradfor@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jeffrey Bradford) writes:
|> The "problem" is because wgnupolot used separate windows for the plot
|> window and the command line.  To see the plot-windows, just switch to
|> that task.  Or just resize the windows to have the plot window and the
|> command window side by side.

	You are right Jeff. But when the popup window comes, all my other windows
are "grayed out" (so I can't move them) and the plot window is behind the 
gnuplot window. To run the "all.demo" file one has to make the gnuplot window
smaller *before* one loads the file.
 
|> Jeff 

	Hallvard Paulsen 
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From: anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen)
Subject: Re: symmetric polar plots
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:03:36 GMT

rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman) writes:
| I find myself doing this sort of thing -- using a plot command to
| produce something that is decoration rather than data -- often enough
| that I think a small alteration to the way key titles are interpreted
| would be useful.  Why not suppress printing key entries for plots
| where the title is null?  I altered my copy of gnuplot 3.1 to behave
| this way, only 5 or 6 lines need changing.
|
| This way, instead of having to turn off the key and then duplicate almost
| all of what it would do by hand, you could just say something like:
|
| plot myborder(theta) title "", mydata(r,theta) title "mytitle"
|
| Radey Shouman					rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu

Great -- This is something which I also find anonying however what if
I still what it to print the entry but with no text -- I have done this
myself.  A better idea is to use a new option ``notitle''

  Anthony Thyssen - (CIT, Griffith University)       anthony@cit.gu.edu.au
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From: brownd@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: VMS version??
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:27:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: merrimac.1992Oct8.132717.2282
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

Is there a version of gnuplot that will work on VAX/VMS?

Doug B.
brownd@merrimack.edu
From: ernst@helmholtz.cns.caltech.edu (Ernst Niebur)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: gnuplot "dots" size
Date: 16 Oct 1992 22:24:32 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: helmholtz.cns.caltech.edu
Keywords: dot point size edit postscript script sed small large

In article <1bj9h9INN11s@cs.ubc.ca> jonathan@rubis.geop.ubc.ca (Jonathan Thornburg) writes:
>
>
>In article <9210142008.AA00370@cryptons.tamu.edu> me@cryptons.tamu.edu
>writes:
>>the "dots" [produced by gnuplot with the "dots" point style]
>>are too tiny for publication purposes. Is there any way of making
>>the dots bigger or darker? (Plot with points is no good since I
>>am doing scatter plots).
>

I use the latex driver, point style 10 for this purpose.

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From: richard@serss0 (Richard A Simm)
Subject: bar/line/pie graphs
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:09:12 GMT

Can I generate Bar/Line/Pie graphs using gnuplot? I'll probably have to
build a front-end but that shouldn't be a problem (i mean to generate the
data for gnuplot). From what I've been reading here, Bar and Line shouldn't
be a problem. But what about Pie? Also, I need support for Color Postscript
and the graphs need to be filled in.

Richard
From: jonathan@rubis.geop.ubc.ca (Jonathan Thornburg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: gnuplot "dots" size
Date: 15 Oct 1992 08:18:49 GMT
Organization: U of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity
NNTP-Posting-Host: rubis.astro.ubc.ca
Summary: it's not pretty, but you *can* edit generated postscript
Keywords: dot point size edit postscript script sed small large



In article <9210142008.AA00370@cryptons.tamu.edu> me@cryptons.tamu.edu
writes:
>the "dots" [produced by gnuplot with the "dots" point style]
>are too tiny for publication purposes. Is there any way of making
>the dots bigger or darker? (Plot with points is no good since I
>am doing scatter plots).



Well, it's not pretty, but if you're using any of the postscript
output formats it's pretty easy to reverse-engineer the postscript
generated for each dot and cobble up an editor script to hack the
dot into (say) a circle of the appropriate radius.  I now use the
sed script given below to do this.  It's used like this:

	% gnuplot
	...
	set terminal postscript portrait 12pt	# other options as desired
	set output foo.ps
	plot ... with dots
	^D
	% gnuplot.dot.size 1.5 <foo.ps >foo.fixed.ps	# 1.5 looks nice for me

or even

	gnuplot <<EOF | gnuplot.dot.size 1.5 >foo.fixed.ps
	...
	set terminal postscript portrait 12pt
	plot ... with dots
	^D

(look, Ma, no temp file!)


This script works well (IMHO) with gnuplot 3.0 on an SGI Indigo using
"set terminal postscript".  I strongly suspect that it also works
on any system running gnuplot 3.* or later and having sed(1), but
I haven't tried it -- caveat emptor:

===== begin gnuplot.dot.size =====
#! /bin/csh
#
# gnuplot.dot.size - Turn gnuplot postscript "dots" into specified-size circles
#
# Usage:
#	gnuplot.dot.size multiplier <input.from.gnuplot.ps >output.ps
# where
#	multiplier = gnuplot "dot" radius in units of the gnuplot
#		     "current line width"
#
# Bugs:
#	This program is somewhat fragile, in that it's based on my reverse
#	engineering of gnuplot's postscript output, and thus may (easily) be
#	broken by changes in this output.
#
if ($#argv != 1) then
	echo 'usage: gnuplot.dot.size multiplier <input.from.gnuplot.ps >output.ps'
	echo 'where multiplier = gnuplot "dot" radius in units of the gnuplot'
	echo '                   "current line width"'
        exit 1
endif
#
sed -e "/\/P {/,/}/c\\
/P { stroke [] 0 setdash currentlinewidth $1 mul 0 360 arc fill } def"
===== end gnuplot.dot.size =====

A final note: The sed(1) command used for the editing actually
pattern-matches only on the first and last lines of the 3-line
postscript segment generated for each "dot", so it could (would)
be fooled if either of these lines appeared elsewhere in the
file.  I did it this (kludged) way because I couldn't figure out
how to persuade sed(1) to do a search-and-replace of a multi-line
pattern :-( ...



- Jonathan Thornburg
  <jonathan@geop.ubc.ca> through 31/Oct/92, then
  <jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu> or <jonathan@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
  University of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity
  and (for a few more months) U of British Columbia / {Astronomy,Physics}
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From: svec5@menudo.uh.edu (T.C. Zhao)
Subject: Re: Lowest common denominator too low?
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:20:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.184302.11580@access.usask.ca> eric@skatter.usask.ca writes:
>I realize that one of gnuplot's claims to fame is its ability to produce
>output on an extremely wide range of output devices.  Unfortunately, this
>is causing problems for a number of users here.
>
>Many of users here would like to put special characters (especially Greek)
>in their axis labels, plot titles, etc.  Physicists are *real* big on Greek...
>
>Our `terminal type' is almost always some form of `postscript' so the extra
>characters could be produced if only there was some way to specify this
>to gnuplot.
>
>Any thoughts on how to add support for non-ASCII characters in gnuplot?
>

Actually, gnuplot is very easy to hack because there is little
interdependency among the "terms". I've hacked the post.trm so now
the text can be of mixed fonts and certainly Greek letters are ok.
(I've been using it on and off for about 3 months now and it works
great.)

I am not sure I can send you the hacked version before asking
the original authors about it.
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From: cph@moggy.inmos.co.uk (Chris Harrop)
Subject: HOW DO I GET GNUPLOT ???
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:42:35 GMT

Where is an ftp site with gnuplot on it (X11 version) ???????

Please someone answer!!!!


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From: ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis - CCSO)
Subject: Re: line styles
Organization: University of Illinois - Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:48:45 GMT

rbutera@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert John Butera) writes:
  |Oops - title should have been line types.  Anyway, I'm running
  |gnuplot using the 'x11' terminal mode.   When I plot multiple
  |data sets on the same plot, I'll do something like:
  |
  |plot 'data.set.1' with lines 1,'data.set.2' with lines 2, etc.
  |
  |However, each line type I try simply comes out as solid black or 
  |white.  I'm probably just missing something from poring over the docs
  |too many times, but is there something else I have to set to tell
  |gnuplot I'm using it in monochrome?  I'd like the line types to
  |be dotted,dashed,etc. (as in gnugraph).

Versions of x11 support before 3.2 treated grayscale displays as color
by default, which meant you would need to define color resources to
appropriate gray values to distinguish line styles. At 3.2, grayscales get
monochrome rendering (dash-dot line styles) by default. If you *are*
running 3.2, them it sounds like your X server is not telling the truth 
about what it is. Using the 3.2 '-mono' option will force monochrome 
rendering on servers that are (or claim to be) color.

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Computing & Communications Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana
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