[LON-CAPA-dev] gnuplot and jpeg

Scott Harrison lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:50:41 -0400


(I did it!  I started a really long thread!  YEAH!)

JPEG should be patent-free.. I thought.
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/

Am I wrong?

Regards,
Scott

Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> 
> 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
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
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Mich. State. Univ., East Lansing, MI
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