Re: [Gnuplot-info] Production quality plots

[Lars H. <la...@ho...>]

Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006 18:25 schrieb Seweryn Kokot:
> Hello,
> Is gnuplot suitable for production quality graphs (for
> journals)? Thanks for any opinions,
> Seweryn

It depends on what you want to show. With some modifications 
of the standard options you can produce sophisticated 
results, as shown on the projects homepage 
(http://www.gnuplot.info , section 'Demos and 
Screenshots'). IMO gnuplot excels with its simple way of 
drawing plots, reduced to the essential parts. Especially 
the facilities of plotting data in combination with the 
fitting abilities makes it a considerable alternative to 
commercial products. 

gnuplot is able to produce various output formats, partly in 
very fine quality. In my experoience the most popular ones 
to be used in journals are jpeg, gif/png and foremost 
postscript. The resolutions given by the varoius terminals 
are good enough to be reproduced in journals.

Regards 
Lars Loegen