VEUSZ(1)

NAME
Veusz - a scientific plotting and graphing application.

SYNOPSIS
veusz [options] [document.vsz]...

DESCRIPTION
Veusz is a scientific plotting and graphing package. It is designed to create publication-ready output in a variety of different output formats. Graphs are built-up combining plotting widgets. Veusz has a GUI user interface (started with the "veusz" command), a Python module interface and a scripting interface.

If started without command line arguments, Veusz will open up with a new empty document. The program will otherwise open the listed documents.

OPTIONS

--unsafe-mode
    Do not check opened scripts for the presence of unsafe Python commands. This allows you to create or open complete Python scripts with Veusz commands if they come from a trusted source.

--listen
    Read Veusz commands from stdin, executing them, then writing the results to stdout. This option replaces the old veusz_listen.

    In this mode Veusz does not read any input documents, but will use the first argument to the program as the window title, if given.

--quiet
    If in listening mode, do not open a window before running commands, but execute them quietly.

--export=FILE
    Export the next Veusz document file on the command line to the graphics file FILE. Supported file types include EPS, PDF, SVG, PNG, BMP, JPG and XPM. The extension of the output file is used to determine the output file format. There should be as many export options specified as input Veusz documents on the command line.

--export-option=OPT
    Adds the option given when exporting. Supported options are dpi=DPI giving the resolution for bitmap output files (default 100), color=True/False to switch to monochrome output (default True), page=[X,...] gives a list of pages to export (default [0]), where the page numbers are numbered from 0, antialias=True/False enables or disables antialiasing in bitmap output files (default True), quality=VAL gives the JPEG quality value (default 85), backcolor='#RRGGBBAA' gives the background color of bitmap files (default '#ffffff00'), pdfdpi=DPI gives the DPI when outputting to PDF files (default 150) and svgtextastext=True/False outputs text in SVG files as text, rather than as curves (default False).

--veusz-plugin=FILE
    Loads the Veusz plugin FILE when starting Veusz. This option provides a per-session alternative to adding the plugin in the preferences dialog box.

--help
    Displays the options to the program and exits.

--version
    Displays information about the currently installed version and exits.

BUGS
Please report bugs at https://github.com/veusz/veusz/issues

AUTHORS
Veusz was written by Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>.

This manual page was written by Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2025 Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.