[LON-CAPA-dev] gnuplot and jpeg

Gerd Kortemeyer lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:38:53 -0400


Now, is Grace going to be hit by the same licensing problems that Gnuplot does, once
it might get too popular? Basically, they are probably violating the same patents,
only that for something currently as small as Grace nobody cares just yet.

What is the support situation nd buggyness of Grace?


Scott Harrison wrote:

> I have for a long time expressed my dislike of gnuplot.
> I have, in the past, suggested, http://gri.sourceforge.net/.
>
> ...however initial output is postscript for gri.
>
> Grace seems cool...
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> Martin Siegert wrote:
> >
> > I just mailed Scott about this:
> > for everybody who wants to try out grace and is too lazy to compile from
> > source (which is not completely trivial):
> > I compile it for RH 7.2 a while ago. The RPMS are here:
> >
> > http://www.sfu.ca/~siegert/grace.html
> >
> > You need the netcdf RPM as well. You probably don't need the pdflib RPM.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:03:48PM -0400, Matthew Brian Hall wrote:
> > > It has been suggested that we try out 'grace'.
> > > http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
> > >
> > > Not that this is the best time for you to be learning a new system, but anyone
> > > who would like to is encouraged to look into it and talk to me about reworking
> > > the plotting interface to use it instead of or as well as gnuplot.  Grace does
> > > not do GIF images, but it does (claim to) handle JPEGs.
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > > > The newest beta
> > > release of Gnuplot only supports ASCII-art output. > > Scott Harrison wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Dear Anybody Who is Working with Gnuplot:
> > > > >
> > > > > So... for a non-LON-CAPA project I have been
> > > > > gnuplot generating JPEGs and/or PNGs (the user
> > > > > can choose).
> > > > >
> > > > > So guess what, RedHat's latest gnuplot RPM for RH7.2
> > > > >
> > > > > DOES NOT SUPPORT JPEG.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sigh...
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Scott
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Scott Harrison -- Graduate Student
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