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Wolfi

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Dec 18, 2008, 12:06:25 PM12/18/08
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I was wondering which is a good package for making plots in fortran.
So far, I was thinking pgplot, but then I came across plplot, alhtough
is mostly C written (less compatible?). Is there a preference between
the two?

Also, is there any easy example which shows e.g. how to feed a set of
data to a fortran code and plot those via pgplot/plplot built in the
fortran code?

Thanks in advance!

KevinK

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Dec 18, 2008, 1:24:56 PM12/18/08
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You may want to check out PSPLOT (www.nova.edu/ocean/psplot.html)
It creates PostScript output files.

-Kevin

baf

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Dec 18, 2008, 2:12:41 PM12/18/08
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dislin (http://dislin.de)

GaryScott

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Dec 18, 2008, 2:18:48 PM12/18/08
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Much more capable than the free products are two commercial products
tailored for Fortran:

GINO - http://www.gino-graphics.com
Winteracter - http://www.winteracter.com

Ian

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Dec 18, 2008, 3:40:52 PM12/18/08
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we have a fortran resource file that you might like to look at.

one of the chapters/sections is on graphics/plotting

http://www.fortranplus.co.uk/fortran_info.html

we used dislin for some plots in our last book have been quite happy
with that.

ian chivers

David Duffy

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Dec 18, 2008, 4:22:40 PM12/18/08
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> Thanks in advance!

For simple plots, I use grapheps (very lightweight)
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/Docupage/grapheps

David Duffy.

Luka Djigas

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Dec 18, 2008, 5:01:13 PM12/18/08
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One more vote for dislin - some of its important advantages:
- number of formats it supports
(pdf included - ps is slowly going out of style these days and wmf -
excellent for including in word files and such)
- very good manual
- in the dark shadows of clf, its author lurks


-- Luka

Arjen Markus

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Dec 19, 2008, 2:37:19 AM12/19/08
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The core of PLplot is written in C, but it provides bindings for
a large number of languages, among which FORTRAN 77 and Fortran 90/95.

It comes with a large bunch of examples and these are intended to be
identical in resulting plots for all supported languages. In the
latest
version (5.9.1) we (*) have achieved that on the level of the
resulting
PostScript files for both FORTRAN 77 and Fortran 90/95, where the
output
from the C examples is taken as the reference. Some other languages
show some rounding issues.

Regards,

Arjen

(*) I help maintain several parts of PLplot, so I may be biased ;)

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Dec 19, 2008, 7:34:18 AM12/19/08
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On Dec 18, 12:06 pm, Wolfi <sfsdf.df...@yahoo.com> wrote:

GnuplotFortran, the Fortran Interface to Gnuplot: http://gnuplotfortran.sourceforge.net/

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