Feature Summary
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Feature Summary

Cross Platform

PLplot is currently known to work on the following platforms:

  • Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unices

  • MSVC IDE on the Microsoft version of Windows (Windows 2000 and later)

  • Cygwin on the Microsoft version of Windows

  • MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the Microsoft version of Windows

For each of the above platforms, PLplot can be configured, built, and installed from source, and for the Linux and Mac OS X platforms third-party binary packages for PLplot are available.

Language Bindings

The language bindings of the C PLplot library are currently the following:

Output File Formats

PLplot device drivers support the following plotting file formats:

  • CGM

  • GIF

  • JPEG

  • PBM

  • PDF

  • PNG

  • PostScript

  • SVG

  • Xfig

Interactive Platforms

PLplot device drivers support the following platforms that are suitable for interactive plotting:

  • GDI

  • GTK+

  • PyQt

  • Qt

  • Tcl/Tk

  • wxWidgets

  • X

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