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I taught Andrea how to use Audacity and now she’s beatboxing. Science, Uncategorized Post navigationĪn unexpected surprise for today– lunch from the Bellair Market delivered by my favorite person in the world. It can also convert SVG to raster formats, but I find its output inferior to that of Inkscape. ‘convert’ may also be used to convert an EPS image to a raster format: $ convert -density 300 input.eps -geometry 900x900 output.tiff Using the open-source program ‘convert’ from the ImageMagick suite of tools, this can be converted to TIFF or another format, optionally removing the transparency and adding a border: $ convert -background "#ffffff00" -flatten -bordercolor "#ffffff00" \ This can also be done at the command line: $ inkscape -export-area-drawing -export-png=file.png \ The images can then be exported with Inkscape at arbitrary resolution to a lossless PNG file. An easy way to see the capabilities of a terminal is to issue the ‘test’ command. If that is an issue, the postscript terminal does have many kinds of dashed lines.
Gnuplot output driver#
There do not appear to be different linetypes other than solid for the SVG driver (though that can be corrected in Inkscape). For the SVG driver, these are the pointtypes: 0 dot Unfortunately, the arguments for these options are specified as arbitrary numbers, which are defined by the specific driver. Linewidth(lw) - controls the width of lines Linecolor(lc) - controls the line (and point) color Linetype(lt) - controls the appearance of lines (solid, dashed, etc.) Pointsize(ps) - controls the size of points Some of the other arguments are: pointtype(pt) - controls the appearance of points Linespoints(lp) - points connected by lines Some possible arguments are: points(p) - unconnected points The first argument is the style, which is how the data should be plotted. Now that we have all of the parameters set, we use the plot function to actually generate the graph data: plot 'data1.dat' using 1:2 w p, \ Set ylabel 'Solvent-inaccessible surface area x 1000 ( AngstromsĬontrolling the legend (key): set nokey # turn off the legendĬontrolling the axis ranges: set xrange Īdding a function to print, such as a regression curve: f(x) = 0.039440 * x + 0.678467 Set title 'This is the title of the graph' It allows more sophisticated titles to be set: set encoding iso_8859_1 The ‘enhanced’ option to the svg terminal is important. Therefore subsequent instructions here are assuming the use of the svg driver. I like svg the most, because the resulting graph may be further annotated with the open-source SVG editor program Inkscape. The svg terminal doesn’t seem to accept the ‘in’ argument to the size option, but in SVG-land 100=1in. To generate an SVG file (best for images around 4″-6″ square): set terminal svg enhanced size 500,500 To generate a Postscript file (best for images around 6″-6.5″ square): set terminal postscript enhanced size 6in,6in To use the postscript terminal to generate an EPS file (best for images around 3″ square, use these commands: set terminal postscript eps enhanced size 3in,3in Generally, you create a file called t, with commands to be passed to ‘gnuplot’ (‘wgnuplot.exe’ on WinXP). I find them most useful particularly for publication-quality scatter diagrams.
Gnuplot output drivers#
While the PNG driver in Gnuplot doesn’t generate terribly good-looking output, both the Postscript and SVG drivers work very well. Now in some ways, the Gnuplot language syntax seems somewhat old-fashioned, but once you learn it (or better yet, learn to write programs that generate it). One can generate publication-quality graphs with Excel, but it is a chore, and most importantly, one cannot easily set the exact sizes of diagrams or generate high resolution images of graphs. (Full disclosure: I am mainly speaking of the base plotting library–I have not extensively used some of the other libraries such as lattice or ggplot2). The R suite is much better suited for statistical analysis, but the plot generation capabilities aren’t as flexible and to my eye don’t look as good.
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Gnuplot output software#
After careful consideration of the alternatives on different platforms, I’ve concluded the best software for generating publication-quality plots is Gnuplot.