RE: Diffraction Program and Data Standards

[mooney@oxygen.aps1.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

Mark Rivers writes:

> My guess is that PLPLOT cannot begin to do what IDL/PV-WAVE can in terms or
> surface plots, color images, etc. What types of graphics devices does it
> support?

True.  PLPLOT does not do shaded surfaces, images of any kind (although
color images are not actually impossible), or modern fonts.  It does
y(x) with error bars, r(theta) polar, histogram, pie, z(x,y) as a
contour plot or 'net' plot with hidden-line removal, and multiple plots
per page.

PLPLOT does graphics on tek401X and emulators, postscript devices, and
the dominant graphics devices on supported operating systems: on Unix
and VMS it does X, on Amiga it does Amiga, on DOS it does VGA, etc.  It
also directly supports a large number of printers and plotters, and
programs like XFig, and on Unix it can use tk and be driven (zoom, pan,
print, save_as_file) by tk widgets.

Tim Mooney