ANN: Veusz 1.0 - a scientific plotting package

Wildemar Wildenburger lasses_weil at klapptsowieso.net
Mon Oct 29 06:46:25 EDT 2007


Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> 
>> Not that I don't value your effort, but why another plotting package
>> while we have pyx and matplotlib already?
> 
> In addition to the Python based scripting command line and embedding
> interface, it has a powerful graphical user interface for constructing
> plots and importing data.  Neither matplotlib or pyx have this.
> This is the main feature. It was originally intended to be mainly
> command-line based, but I've found the GUI to be my main way of using it.
> 
> At the time of the first release of Veusz, and for quite long after,
> matplotlib was too primitive to use as a backend for Veusz (see previous
> threads on this subject). Maybe that has changed now, but IMHO Veusz output
> still looks better.
> 
> Jeremy
> 

Oh, OK. I though it was a library. I now see that it is an actual 
application. Sorry to have bothered you :)

Good luck with that!


/W



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