Veusz 0.7 --------- Velvet Ember Under Sky Zenith ----------------------------- http://home.gna.org/veusz/
Veusz is Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Jeremy Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Licenced under the GPL (version 2 or greater) Veusz is a scientific plotting package written in Python (currently 100% Python). It uses PyQt for display and user-interfaces, and numarray for handling the numeric data. Veusz is designed to produce publication-ready Postscript output. Veusz provides a GUI, command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to its plotting facilities. The plots are built using an object-based system to provide a consistent interface. Changes from 0.6: Please refer to ChangeLog for all the changes. Highlights include: * 2D image support * FITS file data import (1D + 2D) with PyFITS module * Support for line separated blocks of data when importing * Reversed axes supported * Key length option * Linked dataset reload UI * Plot functions over specific range * Several UI improvements Features of package: * X-Y plots (with errorbars) * Images (with colour mappings) * Stepped plots (for histograms) * Line plots * Function plots * Fitting functions to data * Stacked plots and arrays of plots * Plot keys * Plot labels * LaTeX-like formatting for text * EPS output * Simple data importing * Scripting interface * Save/Load plots * Dataset manipulation * Embed Veusz within other programs To be done: * Contour plots * UI improvements * Import filters (for qdp and other plotting packages, fits, csv) Requirements: Python (probably 2.3 or greater required) http://www.python.org/ Qt (free edition) http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/ PyQt (SIP is required to be installed first) http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/ http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/ numarray http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray Microsoft Core Fonts (recommended) http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ PyFITS (optional) http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyfits For documentation on using Veusz, see the "Documents" directory. The manual is in pdf, html and text format (generated from docbook). If you enjoy using Veusz, I would love to hear from you. Please join the mailing lists at https://gna.org/mail/?group=veusz to discuss new features or if you'd like to contribute code. The newest code can always be found in CVS. If non GPL projects are interested in using Veusz code, please contact me. I am happy to consider relicencing code for other free projects, if I am legally allowed to do so. Cheers Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053
