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The version of gnuplot installed on all [[hardware|local machines]] has been compiled with [[http://www.pdflib.com/ PDFlib]], which makes it possible to directly produce PDF images. These have the important advantage that the resulting figures are fully scalable and yet have a small file size. |
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Revision as of 11:05, 15 May 2014
Overview
Gnuplot is a program for plotting scientific data. The resulting figures can be of very high quality, provided that attention is paid to detail. Impressive examples can be found on the [gnuplot homepage].
PDF terminal
The version of gnuplot installed on all local machines has been compiled with [PDFlib], which makes it possible to directly produce PDF images. These have the important advantage that the resulting figures are fully scalable and yet have a small file size.