Mac installation cloning

[Thomas M. <mat...@ph...>]

The main capability lacking from plain vanilla gnuplot built on my 10.6.8 Mac from source is the ability to make png or gif output.

What is the minimal set of packages I need to have to get png or gif terminal types?

I'd also like to be able to make pdf output.  What is the minimal set of packages to make pdf output?  

Or is there some way to trick the postscript terminal to make pdf output?  (I know that the postscript terminal can make eps output, which is not hard to convert to pdf.  And I know that if I install Aquaterm before the gnuplot build, then the "aqua" terminal type appears, and Aquaterm can save its window to a pdf file) 


It would be nice to make a Mac version of Gnuplot that supported all terminal types that are supported in the Windows version.

What terminal types are supported in the Windows version of gnuplot?

What packages are required so they could be available to a Mac version?





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