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From: locher@IASTATE.EDU (Locher Robert Carroll Iii)
Subject: X plotting subroutine library
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.231323@IASTATE.EDU>
Keywords: X, PostScript, plotting, subroutine
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Reply-To: locher@IASTATE.EDU (Locher Robert Carroll Iii)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 04:13:23 GMT
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I wonder if anybody can point me to an X and Postscript plotting subroutine
library that is more versatile than the ones I have seen so far.

	My wish list:
	-------------

	1.)  Basic plotting stuff -- axes, points, etc.

	2.)  Nice text - Times Roman, other fonts, super/sub scripts, Greek 
	     letters, scientific symbols, etc.

	3.)  Publication-quality output (Postscript, 300 dpi)

	4.)  Editable output - curve legends, arbitrary legends, etc.

	5.)  Decent preview in X - ideally the program would be able to cause
	     a window to appear with the preview instead of having to run
	     other commands from an xterm window to see it.  However I'd
	     settle for anything that wasn't too scrunched.


My biggest beef with the packages I've seen so far is that they try to produce
device-independent graphics viewable on any conceivable graphics device, which
means that the output inevitably looks like it was done on a plotter instead of
using the power of Postscript.  Also some are editable and some are not; some
laugh at you if you want symbols or subscripts in axes or legends.  Some make it
far easier to print the sucker to preview it than do it at your terminal.

Any comments would be most helpful.  Reply by email or by post, or flame by
email :-)

				Mercy Buckups,

				Rob Locher