Gnuplot FrontEnd for OS X ? (for use with WxMaxima to copy or save graphs to png, jpg or pdf )

By beckmart at Tue, Jul 20 2010 10:06pm |

Hi

I'm searching for a GnuPlot FrontEnd which I can use with WxMaxima to output and save graphs in different formats (jpg, png, pdf, ...).

Some time ago (maybe 2 years?!) I had such a software on my old powerbook, but I can't find it.
I thought, it was AquaTerm, but AquaTerm lets me only save its output to pdf or eps (no png, ...).

Can anyone help me?
I thought that Aquaterm was able to copy or save a graph with right click in different formats?

Is there a Mac freeware which can do that?

Can Plot be used to display wxMaxima graphics?

Kind regards

Martin

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Tue, 2010-07-20 22:18 — LeninWTigger

I have no experience with

I have no experience with wxMaxima. I take it you use wxMaxima to produce a text format data file then want to plot it with gnuplot and save a png. And do everything from the command-line (or a script). Is that right? Have you tried grace? It has a noprint|harcopy file option.

Wed, 2010-07-21 01:22 — beckmart

Maxima is a computer algebra

Maxima is a computer algebra system like Mathematica or Maple.
It uses gnuplot to produce inline graphics which can be displayed directly in the calculation "sheet".

Another way is to display the graphics externally - e. g. in Aquaterm (= in a separate window) to copy them for use in other documents.
That works for be, but Aquaterm as no way of exporting directly to png or jpg, just saving as pdf.

And I thought that it was able to do much more, but it seems that I confuse it with some other software...
:-(

Martin

Wed, 2010-07-21 08:26 — jmt

If you install the "gd"

If you install the "gd" library (see http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-61790.html) then you get some new terminals including a png terminal.

Note that if rebuilding gnuplot on snow leopard there are a couple of hoops to jump through - see http://www.macresearch.org/gnuplot-aquaterm-snow-leopard-1061.

Jonny

Thu, 2010-07-22 18:52 — beckmart

Hi Jonny, thanks for your

Hi Jonny,

thanks for your comment.
I had gd2 already installed via MacPorts.
Can I also create a png output in AquaTerm?

Martin

Fri, 2010-07-23 03:56 — jmt

Hi Martin, > Can I also

Hi Martin,

> Can I also create a png output in AquaTerm?
Not as far as I know. I obviously don't know the details of your setup and what you are trying to achieve, but normally with gnuplot the pattern would be to send all your commands to aquaterm and then just say:

set terminal png [+ whatever options you want]
replot

This sort of thing works pretty well unless you are really trying to get publication quality output in which case you may want to adjust a few of the layout options since these tend to change slightly between terminals