Veusz 1.24
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http://home.gna.org/veusz/

Veusz is a scientific plotting package.  It is designed to produce
publication-ready Postscript, PDF or SVG output. Graphs are built-up
by combining plotting widgets. The user interface aims to be simple,
consistent and powerful.

Veusz provides GUI, Python module, command line, scripting, DBUS and
SAMP interfaces to its plotting facilities. It also allows for
manipulation and editing of datasets. Data can be captured from
external sources such as Internet sockets or other programs.

Changes in 1.24:
 * Text labels can now include Python expressions inside %{{ }}%
 * Added built-in functions DATE([fmt]), TIME([fmt]), FILENAME() and BASENAME()
   when evaluating expressions, which are useful when used in labels
 * Added Python dictionary ENVIRON when evaluating expressions, to obtain
   values from environment variables
 * Added DATA(name, [part]) function to expression environment for accessing
   values from datasets, useful for function evaluation or labels
 * Added SETTING(path) function for expression evaluation to obtain values
   of settings
 * Added ESCAPE(text) function to environment, which allows LaTeX special
   characters to be displayed in labels
 * Add fractions and percentages units to polar plot
 * Allow number of spokes to be varied in polar plot
 * Widgets can be clicked holding down shift or ctrl, to add or toggle their
   selection
 * Add K. Moreland's cool-warm colormap (thanks to S. Richardson)
 * Added further green-map, blue-darkred, blue-darkorange, brown-blue and
   blue-orange colormaps from Oregon geography dept.
 * Add logarithm and exponential dataset plugins
 * Add Wipe() command to embedding interface to clear document
 * Add File->Reload menu option to reload from saved document
 * Add tooltip to items in FieldWidget showing widget path

Bux fixes:
 * Fix transparency with bar plot
 * Use getcwdu() for python2 to avoid bugs combining paths
 * Handle inf/nan when converting to human readable form in plots
 * Fix CreateHistogram on command line without binparams parameter
 * Handle empty 2D dataset import with grid at edge enabled
 * Do not allow error bars on imported CSV non-numeric data
 * Handle missing argument in \size
 * For data edit dialog, allow 1D dataset to replace 2D dataset
 * Crash if zoom to be height when height is zero
 * Fix problem with 2D import if error message is in unicode
 * With axis-function widget catch result if greater than 1 dimension
 * Fix cloning for datasets with / in name
 * Fix crash in embedding if plot window closed while rendering in progress

Features of package:
 Plotting features:
  * X-Y plots (with errorbars)
  * Line and function plots
  * Contour plots
  * Images (with colour mappings and colorbars)
  * Stepped plots (for histograms)
  * Bar graphs
  * Vector field plots
  * Box plots
  * Polar plots
  * Ternary plots
  * Plotting dates
  * Fitting functions to data
  * Stacked plots and arrays of plots
  * Nested plots
  * Plot keys
  * Plot labels
  * Shapes and arrows on plots
  * LaTeX-like formatting for text
  * Multiple axes
  * Axes with steps in axis scale (broken axes)
  * Axis scales using functional forms
  * Plotting functions of datasets
 Input and output:
  * EPS/PDF/PNG/SVG/EMF export
  * Dataset creation/manipulation
  * Embed Veusz within other programs
  * Text, HDF5, CSV, FITS, NPY/NPZ, QDP, binary and user-plugin importing
  * Data can be captured from external sources
 Extending:
  * Use as a Python module
  * User defined functions, constants and can import external Python functions
  * Plugin interface to allow user to write or load code to
     - import data using new formats
     - make new datasets, optionally linked to existing datasets
     - arbitrarily manipulate the document
  * Scripting interface
  * Control with DBUS and SAMP
 Other features:
  * Data filtering and manipulation
  * Data picker
  * Interactive tutorial
  * Multithreaded rendering

Requirements for source install:
 Python 2.x (2.6 or greater required) or 3.x (3.3 or greater required)
   http://www.python.org/
 Qt >= 4.6 (free edition)
   http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/
 PyQt >= 4.5 (SIP is required to be installed first)
   http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/
   http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/
 numpy >= 1.0
   http://numpy.scipy.org/

Optional requirements:
 h5py (optional for HDF5 support)
   http://www.h5py.org/
 astropy >= 0.2 or PyFITS >= 1.1 (optional for FITS import)
   http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyfits
   http://www.astropy.org/
 pyemf >= 2.0.0 (optional for EMF export)
   http://pyemf.sourceforge.net/
 PyMinuit >= 1.1.2 (optional improved fitting)
   http://code.google.com/p/pyminuit/
 dbus-python, for dbus interface
   http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
 astropy (optional for VO table import)
   http://www.astropy.org/
 SAMPy or astropy >= 0.4 (optional for SAMP support)
   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sampy/

Veusz is Copyright (C) 2003-2015 Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>
 and contributors.
It is licensed under the GPL (version 2 or greater).

For documentation on using Veusz, see the "Documents" directory. The
manual is in PDF, HTML and text format (generated from docbook). The
examples are also useful documentation. Please also see and contribute
to the Veusz wiki: https://github.com/jeremysanders/veusz/wiki

If you enjoy using Veusz, we would love to hear from you. Please join
the mailing lists at

https://gna.org/mail/?group=veusz

to discuss new features or if you'd like to contribute code. The
latest code can always be found in the Git repository
at https://github.com/jeremysanders/veusz.git.
