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Plotdroppy - quick plots on Mac OS X
http://plotdroppy.sourceforge.net

Installation
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See the included INSTALL document


About
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Plotdroppy (or Plotdrop.py, pronounced "plot-droppy") is a very simple Mac OS X "droplet" 
for quick data visualization.  Drag-and-drop one or more text files containing series 
data and a simple scatter plot is generated containing each series with different symbols,
 legend, etc.  GUI-less Mac alternative to PlotDrop.  Plotdroppy can also be used from the
 command-line, including under non-mac systems, though those users are strongly encouraged 
to use the original PlotDrop


Requirements
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Plotdroppy requires Mac OS X (other *nix users can use it from the command line) and Pylab,
 a free Python plotting module.  Fink may be the easiest way to get pylab, as well as a 
newer version of Python.  Plotdroppy does not require a GUI backend for pylab, so if you 
are unable to import pylab because of the backend, you can set it to one of the non-GUI 
backends, such as Agg.  See Matplotlib Backends for more.

Usage
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In OS X, simply select the data files, drop them onto the droplet, and wait for the image 
to appear. Plotdroppy can also be invoked from the command-line, and will still open the 
image automatically (mac only).  To use:
	$: plotdrop.py file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
	
will output a plot of those three files.  If you tend to store related data in separate 
directories, this is especially convenient:

	$: plotdrop.py output_directory/*

Contact
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Problems, bugs, suggestions?  Email me, Jim Bagrow, bagrowjp [at] clarkson [dot] edu