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Version 2.41 Mar2009


Manual page for ploticus_download(PL) Release notes - What's New
Sourceforge ploticus site    
Central Europe mirror site

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Source code

Includes C source code, prefab files, and pltestsuite. Please be sure you are familiar with the ploticus copyright and permissions notice before you proceed. Instructions for downloading and building.


Documentation and examples

Many users will prefer to use this web site. But if you want your own copy, here are several options for using documentation and examples locally.
  • HTML docs and roff man pages with no images   pl231docs.tar.gz (___ kB)
  • All script examples with data files (no images)   pl231gal.tar.gz (___ kB)
  • Complete web site - all docs, examples, images, and thumbnails... install it and navigate locally just like this web site   pl231site.tar.gz (____ kB)



Platform-specific info & pre-compiled binaries

These distributions generally include a pre-compiled binary executable, prefab files, and pltestsuite. Documentation is generally not included. Please be sure you are familiar with the ploticus copyright and permissions notice. After downloading, see the support page for additional info.


Solaris 2.x (Sparc)

  • Ploticus 2.31   pl231solaris.tar.gz (___ kB).   PNG, SVG, SVGZ, PostScript, X11. Compiled to use static libz and libpng.

    Linux

  • Ploticus 2.31   pl231linux.tar.gz (___ kB).   PNG, SVG, SVGZ, PostScript, X11. Compiled to use dynamic libz and libpng on an x86 system running Red Hat 7.3, Linux 2.4.18-3, gcc 2.96.

  • RPM packages   available here   thanks to Peter Hanecak (hanecak@megaloman.com)

    win32

  • Ploticus 2.31   pl231win32.zip (___ kB)   A native win32 standalone command line application (PL.EXE) built using minGW. GIF, SVG and PostScript are supported.

    win32 / cygwin

  • Ploticus 2.31 with PNG and SWF (Cygwin) pl231win32cygwin.zip - provided by Jamie Echlin


    Mac OS X

  • Available via Fink (the executable will be named 'ploticus' rather than 'pl'). Or, if you have gcc you can build directly from source code.

    AIX

  • ploticus 2.30 on AIX 5.1, 4.3, and 4.2 available here   thanks to the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science.

    HP-UX

  • Available here   thanks to Stephanie Nile (stephie@connect.org.uk)

    HP e3000 MPE/iX

  • Available here   thanks to Andreas Schmidt (andreas@hillschmidt.de)

    Digital Unix 4.0. I received a report that ploticus compiles on this platform. Here are some notes.



    Accessories

    • EasyTimeline tool, a front-end that invokes ploticus.

    • diffs for "Makefile_api" to create sharedlib on MacOS X contributed by Dieter Fiebelkorn (25 Aug '03)

    • libplg documentation for the underlying API that ploticus uses for drawing to X11, PostScript, etc. Also some examples that use libplg. (15 Aug '03)

    • Perl interface to the ploticus API contributed by Dan Sully (28 Jul '03)

    • fdbfonts.tar.gz several fdb fonts for use with SWF.

    • A patch allowing pl to be compiled with a new GD version that reintroduces gif support along with later GD features such as Freetype font support, etc. The patch was tested with libgd with gif support gd-2.0.12gif.tar.gz but probably works with any version of libgd newer than 1.8.4. The ploticus API is not supported by this patch. Contributed by Lukas Zimmermann, 12 Apr 2003. (The GIF-enabled libgd is at http://www.rime.com.au/gd/)

    • Python interface. A wrapper for the libploticus library that provides an interface for making ploticus calls using Python. Received 29 Jan 2003.

    • psencodings.tar.gz contributed by Artur Zaprzala (zybi@talex.pl). A simple script (AWK+Python) that generates Latin2 encoding table for postscript files using pstables.h from Freetype. It will also work for any other 8-bit encoding supported by Python. Received 28 Jan 2003.

    • dates.patch A patch contributed by Stephen Deken (stephen@flamewar.org) that enhances date processing, supports additional date formats, etc. Received 26 Jun 2002.

    • nicehatching.tar.gz A patch contributed by Scott McPeak that implements additional crosshatch patterns (diagonal) for shading bar graphs. Includes a general purpose vector package.

    • ploticus.perl A perl script which implements a web interface to ploticus, by Tom McClure.





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