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Manual page for Welcome(PL) What's new - Version 1.41 was released on 18 June '01.     Now GPL!

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ploticus is a free software package for Unix platforms that creates plots and graphical data displays for web pages and intranets, paper reports, posters, slides, or interactive use. It is script-driven and can be invoked automatically from web servers and other programs. It can work with flat ascii or spreadsheet data sets that can include numerics and text as well as dates and times in a wide variety of notations. It also has built-in capability of computing frequency distributions, cross-tabs, medians, quartiles, and curve fitting.

Ploticus, which was first released in 1999, is the successor an earlier freeware plotting program called ipl.

Getting started: After downloading the software, look through the Gallery using your web browser. Then download an example to try. For example, if you had downloaded the example ploticus script pie2.htm, you could generate an EPS file by typing the command
pl -eps pie2.htm.
You can modify the script as desired with your favorite text editor, using the hyperlinked handbook as a guide. A test suite is also available from the download page that contains about 20 example scripts.

The author and maintainer is Stephen C. Grubb.


data display engine  
Copyright Steve Grubb


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