ANN: Veusz 0.7 - a scientific plotting package

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Jeremy Sanders

Veusz 0.7
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Velvet Ember Under Sky Zenith
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http://home.gna.org/veusz/

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).

Cheers

Jeremy
 

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