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From: u800552@lanl.gov (James R. White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: AmigaPlot by James White
Message-ID: <58793@lanl.gov>
Date: 1 Aug 90 14:19:07 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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> jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano @ Univ. Roch. Center for Visual Sci.) writes

> I just unpacked a version of AmigaPlot 1.4 shareware
> program and it looks to be quite useful for plotting
> data sets or computed values. It uses a command file
> which specifies the number of data sets to be plotted
> the symbols to be used and/or line types, the max-min
> of the ordinate and abcissa. The plot may be saved
> in IFF format for printing or import to other programs such as
> Dpaint.

I am glad you liked it.  Actually, AmigaPlot dosen't save the
plot in IFF file format, but a public-domain program supplied
in the archive will.  If anybody fixes AmigaPlot to directly 
write an IFF file, I would be grateful if they would send me
the source.  I spent two weeks in an unsucessful attempt to 
write the IFF file generator.

> Does anyone know if J. White has released a more recent
> version (the date of 1.4 is 1/6/88)? With prefs printer support?

Version 1.4 is the latest version.  It is pretty solid, and I used
the program in my consulting nuclear engineering practice for over
three years.  The screendump portion of the program is supplied in
a file named ScreenDump.c, and is very straight-forward.  This has
the advantage of providing a 1-to-1 pixel-per-pixel dump of the 
screen to the printer.

> Could Post be used to convert these IFF files to a
> "better than bitmapped" postscript plot?
> Could the IFF file be converted through Pro Draw to
> postscript?

I guess anything is possible, but I don't know how to do it - 
I am unfamiliar with Pro Draw.

> Does anyone else have a favorite plotting program for Data Sets?

Not me.

> Joanne
>  Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science     (716) 275-3055
>  Room 274 Meliora Hall, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627
>  INTERNET: jea@cvs.rochester.edu
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