2010-05-19

GNU Plotting

gnuplot homepage


On advice from several friends, I've decided to learn gnuplot to produce graphics for my work.

Demos

Windows installation:

1 - Download Windows package (e.g. gp440win32.zip)

2 - Unzip to a folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\gnuplot)

3 - Define environment variables:
3.1 - (optional) GNUPLOT_HOME = C:\Program Files\gnuplot
Add %GNUPLOT_HOME%\binary to your PATH environment variable
3.2 - GNUPLOT_LIB=
3.3 - (fonts for PNG output) GDFONTPATH=%windir%\FONTS
3.3 - (fonts for PNG output) GNUPLOT_FONTPATH=%windir%\FONTS

4 - Open a new console window and type gnuplot.exe or wgnuplot.exe.

(see README.Windows for more information)

2 comments:

Sparrow said...

To access the 'help' command contents in Windows Vista or later, you need to install the HLP file reader, available from Microsoft KB 917607.

Sparrow said...

In version 4.6.0 of gnuplot the 'binary' directory is now called 'bin', so you should add %GNUPLOT_HOME%\bin to your PATH environment variable instead.