gnuplot for Mac
Visualize mathematical functions and data.
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gnuplot overview
gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive datafile (text or binary) and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Apple Mac, VMS, Atari and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. It does this job pretty well, and in addition it serves as non-interactive plotting engine for miscellaneous portable third-party applications, like Octave. Gnuplot is developed and supported since 1986, and having its scripts and commands easy to understand text files, it is time-portable as well.
Gnuplot supports various kinds of plots. In 2D, it can draw line, point, dot, box, histogram graphs or vector fields. In 3D, it supports line, point and dot surfaces, with or without hidden line removal. It supports color or grayscale surfaces and maps, even for non-equidistant and non-rectangular 3D data, otherwise it offers data gridding.
Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals: interactive screen terminals (with mouse and hotkey functionality), pen plotters (like hpgl), printers (including postscript and many color devices), and printings to output file as vectorial pseudo-devices like LaTeX, metafont, pdf, svg, or bitmap png. Gnuplot is easily extensible to include new devices.
What's new in version 6.0.5
Bug Fixes
- qt: Slow font initialization on Windows Bug 2316 2476
- gd: Resolved long-standing font handling problems. Bug 2819 requires recent library versions (libgd 2.4.0 libraqm 0.10.3)
- webp: possible corruption of single-frame multiplots Bug 2876 incorrect alpha compositing onto transparent background Bug 2878
- Better tic placement on logscale axis spanning two decades Bug 2856
- Always clear previous plot title before a new plot is started Bug 2865
- Endpoint errors due to floating point precision Bug 2768
- Repaired axis range parsing in parametric mode broken by change in 6.0.4
- Reworked logic for extending the command buffer incrementally on input. Long input lines with backslash continuation could lead to corruption of the command string if encountered early in program execution.
- Preserve blank lines in output from "plot with table" Bug 2874
Full list of changes available here
gnuplot for Mac
Free
In English
Version 6.0.5
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Mar 14, 2011
Version: 4.4.3
FYI, this is also available for installation via MacPorts.
Nov 10, 2010
Version: 4.4.2
Hello
Here is an additional comment to JIMCLARK01's tips to compile gnuplot 4.4.2 under Snow Leopard (Mac OS X.6) with PNG, JPEG output available :
X11 should be installed on your computer (From Mac OSX install DVD).
gnuplot needs libgd library to support graphics output formats like PNG.
You have to install libgd first and to link gnuplot with it.
1 - Download libraries JPEG (jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz), FreeType 2.4.3, and GD 2.0.35 (Find them on the Web, copy the .tar.gz file in a directory , uncompact them with the Finder)
Then in a terminal window :
2 - Install lib jpeg-6b :
cd jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess .
./configure --enable-static --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib
make
sudo make install
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a
Library will be put be in /usr/local : /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a
Remarks :
--enable-shared don't work
make install produce an error with doc, ignore it.
3 - Install freetype-2.4.3
cd freetype-2.4.3
./configure
make
sudo make install
4 - Install libgd
cd gd-2.0.35
sudo ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/fontconfig /usr/local/include
sudo cp -r /usr/X11/include/*png* /usr/local/include
./configure --with-x --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --with-png=/usr/X11
make
sudo make install
5 - rebuild gnuplot
./configure --with-readline=bsd --x-include=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib
Verify here that png terminals are detected in configure's output
make
sudo make install
6 - To make libgd support fonts
export GDFONTPATH=$HOME/Library/Fonts:/Library/Fonts:/System/Library/Fonts
before you launch gnuplot or put GDFONTPATH initialization in your ~/.bash_profile
