hello,
gnuplot is a very powerful plotting librairy. Among its capabilities is
exporting in many formats, including pstricks.
At the end of this message are the possible output formats for a graph,
on my machine.
A very good ressource is here :
http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/index-e.html
Enjoy it :)
paul
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Available terminal types:
aed512 AED 512 Terminal
aed767 AED 767 Terminal
aifm Adobe Illustrator 3.0 Format
bitgraph BBN Bitgraph Terminal
cgm Computer Graphics Metafile
corel EPS format for CorelDRAW
dumb printer or glass dumb terminal
dxf dxf-file for AutoCad (default size 120x80)
eepic EEPIC -- extended LaTeX picture environment
emf Enhanced Metafile format
emtex LaTeX picture environment with emTeX specials
epslatex LaTeX (Text) and encapsulated PostScript
epson_180dpi Epson LQ-style 180-dot per inch (24 pin) printers
epson_60dpi Epson-style 60-dot per inch printers
epson_lx800 Epson LX-800, Star NL-10, NX-1000, PROPRINTER ...
fig FIG graphics language for XFIG graphics editor
gpic GPIC -- Produce graphs in groff using the gpic
preprocessor
hp2623A HP2623A and maybe others
hp2648 HP2648 and HP2647
hp500c HP DeskJet 500c, [75 100 150 300] [rle tiff]
hpdj HP DeskJet 500, [75 100 150 300]
hpgl HP7475 and relatives [number of pens] [eject]
hpljii HP Laserjet series II, [75 100 150 300]
hppj HP PaintJet and HP3630 [FNT5X9 FNT9X17 FNT13X25]
imagen Imagen laser printer
jpeg JPEG images using libgd and TrueType fonts
kc_tek40xx MS-DOS Kermit Tek4010 terminal emulator - color
km_tek40xx MS-DOS Kermit Tek4010 terminal emulator - monochrome
latex LaTeX picture environment
mf Metafont plotting standard
mif Frame maker MIF 3.00 format
mp MetaPost plotting standard
nec_cp6 NEC printer CP6, Epson LQ-800 [monocrome color draft]
okidata OKIDATA 320/321 Standard
pbm Portable bitmap [small medium large] [monochrome gray
color]
pcl5 HP Designjet 750C, HP Laserjet III/IV, etc. (many
options)
png PNG images using libgd and TrueType fonts
postscript PostScript graphics language [mode "fontname" font_size]
pslatex LaTeX picture environment with PostScript \specials
pstex plain TeX with PostScript \specials
pstricks LaTeX picture environment with PSTricks macros
qms QMS/QUIC Laser printer (also Talaris 1200 and others)
regis REGIS graphics language
selanar Selanar
starc Star Color Printer
svg W3C Scalable Vector Graphics driver
table Dump ASCII table of X Y [Z] values to output
tandy_60dpi Tandy DMP-130 series 60-dot per inch graphics
tek40xx Tektronix 4010 and others; most TEK emulators
tek410x Tektronix 4106, 4107, 4109 and 420X terminals
texdraw LaTeX texdraw environment
tgif TGIF X11 [mode] [x,y] [dashed] ["font" [fontsize]]
tkcanvas Tk/Tcl canvas widget [perltk] [interactive]
tpic TPIC -- LaTeX picture environment with tpic \specials
unknown Unknown terminal type - not a plotting device
vttek VT-like tek40xx terminal emulator
x11 X11 Window System
X11 X11 Window System (identical to x11)
xlib X11 Window System (gnulib_x11 dump)
Zajcev Evgeny wrote:
>Hello, I'm new to Maxima and I'm very excited it. I use `imaxima' to
>interact with Maxima. One thing that annoys me a little is that
>Maxima uses external gnuplot for drawing. So my question is it
>possible to make Maxima use PSTricks's pst-plot and pst-3dplot plugins
>to performe plotting, so imaxima will be able to generate inlined
>plots. If there no such thing, could you please provide
>implementation hints for me to try to implement it ..
>
>Thanks for great software!
>
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