Bug#132878: wnpp: ITP: ploticus -- template driven system for informational plots]
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : ploticus
Version : 2.02
Upstream Author : Stephen C. Grubb <scg@jax.org>
* URL : http://ploticus.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL: also link against libgd, which has a GPL
: compatible license and libfreetype6 which also
: has a GPL compatible license.
Description : Ploticus is script-driven, using a non-procedural
language, which makes it suitable for automated, unattended
uses, or for applications that will be run again and again.
This can be very useful for web sites. In general, ploticus
is good at making graphs like you would see in newspapers and
news magazines, business publications, journals for medical
and social sciences, and so on.
Ploticus is not a function or mathematical plotting package
like gnuplot, nor would it be a good choice for applications
where mathematical formulas or scientific notations are to be
rendered as an integral part of the data display. Ploticus
is also not intended as a "marketing" graphics package. Its
goal is to display data crisply without extra decoration and
distracting "dingbats" that cloud the picture. Thus there is
little support for 3-D effects, gradient backgrounds, and so on.
Ploticus can generate bar charts, stacked bar charts, line
charts, histograms, best fit charts, and vertical bar charts
from "prefabs". Many other chart types can be generated by
defining custom templates.
Ploticus can output jpeg, png, SVG, and postscript. Ploticus
can simultaneously create imagemaps for web usage.
Documentation is extensive. It will be released as a companion
ploticus-doc package.
-- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux mcbragg
2.4.17-686-smp #2 SMP Sat Dec 22 22:00:42 EST 2001 i686 unknown
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