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different plots in Excel and gnuplot

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Liviu

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Dec 27, 2009, 6:08:47 AM12/27/09
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Hi all,

I am new user of gnuplot. I've got a simple two columns data which
give me a different looking plot in Excel (or OpenOffice) than in
gnuplot. I am using gnuplot Version 4.4 patchlevel 0-rc1 on windows.
The plt,dat files are at
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~armeanu/gnuplot/
with the pictures of the two resulting plots.

Thanks for any help/ideas,
Liviu

Stefan Nowy

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Dec 27, 2009, 6:23:16 AM12/27/09
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Unfortunately the pictures are much too small to see e.g. the axis labels.

Are you *really* sure you plotted exactely the same data? Maybe problems
in Excel due to a different decimal seperator or the exponential form of
your data?

Stefan

Richard Owlett

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Dec 27, 2009, 7:22:33 AM12/27/09
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No, that was not Liviu's problem.

The plot shown for Excel is "Plot type -> Line"
x axis is row #
y axis is data from column 2

Desired plot is "Plot type -> XY(Scatter)
x axis is data from column 1
y axis is data from column 2


Liviu

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Dec 27, 2009, 3:14:42 PM12/27/09
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Thanks Richard (and Stefan),

This was the problem:

> Desired plot is "Plot type -> XY(Scatter)
>     x axis is data from column 1
>     y axis is data from column 2

Cheers,
Liviu

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