ANN: Veusz 0.7 - a scientific plotting package

Veusz 0.7 --------- Velvet Ember Under Sky Zenith ----------------------------- 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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Jeremy Sanders