## Ploticus download

Version 2.32

Manual page for Ploticus_download(PL)

Release notes - What's New

From this page you can:
- Download source code
- Download documentation
- Download precompiled binaries for various platforms
- Links to accessories and interesting resources

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## Source code

Includes C source code, prefab files, and pltestsuite. Please be sure you are familiar with the ploticus copyright and permissions notice before you proceed. The download includes everything you need to produce GIF, SVG, EPS, or Postscript graphics.. for the basic configuration there are no library dependencies (except perhaps X11/xlib). Complete instructions for downloading and building.

- Ploticus 2.31 pl231src.tar.gz (Feb 4 '05 - 450 kB).
- Previous version: Ploticus 2.30 pl230src.tar.gz (420 kB).
- Old version: Ploticus 2.21 pl221src.tar.gz (400 kB).

### For late-breaking updates see the What's New page

## Documentation and examples

Many users will prefer to use this web site. But if you want your own copy, here are several options for using documentation and examples locally.

- HTML docs and roff man pages with no images pl231docs.tar.gz (500 kB)
- All script examples with data files (no images) pl231gal.tar.gz (205 kB)
- Complete web site - all docs, examples, images, and thumbnails... install it and navigate locally just like this web site pl231site.tar.gz (1720 kB)

## Platform-specific info & pre-compiled binaries

These distributions generally include a pre-compiled binary executable, prefab files, and pltestsuite. Documentation is generally not included. Please be sure you are familiar with the ploticus copyright and permissions notice. After downloading, see the support page for additional info.

### Solaris 2.x (Sparc)

- Ploticus 2.31 pl231solaris.tar.gz (320 kB). PNG, SVG, SVGZ, PostScript, X11. Compiled to use static libz & libpng.

  ### Linux

- Ploticus 2.31 pl231linux.tar.gz (312 kB). PNG, SVG, SVGZ, PostScript, X11. Compiled to use dynamic libz and libpng on an x86 system running Red Hat 7.3, gcc 2.96.
- 64 bit - the source code distribution (2.31+) should now be OK on 64 bit platforms.
- RPM packages available here thanks to Peter Hanecak.
- Debian resource available here

  ### win32

- Ploticus 2.31 pl231win32.zip (350 kB) A native win32 standalone command line application (PL.EXE) built using minGW. GIF, SVG and EPS/PostScript are supported.

  ### win32/cygwin

- Ploticus 2.31 pl231win32cygwin.zip (2500 kB) PNG (w/ FreeType2 fonts!), SWF, SVG, EPS/PostScript. Provided by Jamie Echlin.
- An earlier cygwin ploticus version is available here thanks to Markus Hoenicka.

  ### Mac OS X

- Available via Fink (the executable will be named 'ploticus' rather than 'pl'). Or, if you have gcc you can build directly from source code.

  ### AIX

- ploticus 2.30 on AIX 5.1, 4.3, and 4.2 available here thanks to the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science. (25 Oct '04)

  ### HP-UX

- Available here thanks to Stephanie Nile.

  ### HP e3000 MPE/iX

- Available here thanks to Andreas Schmidt.
  Digital Unix 4.0 build notes.

  ## Accessories

  - Javascript files for use with SVG mouseover (2.30+). Contributed by Jamie Echlin (mid 2004).
  - QUISP - quick active server pages. This package, by the same author as ploticus, is a concise page-template-driven dynamic web content system that can include embedded ploticus scripts.
  - EasyTimeline tool for creating timelines, by Erik Zachte.
  - diffs for "Makefile_api" to create sharedlib on MacOS X contributed by Dieter Fiebelkorn (25 Aug '03)
  - libplg documentation for the underlying API that ploticus uses for drawing to X11, PostScript, etc. Also some examples that use libplg. (15 Aug '03)
  - Perl interface to the ploticus API contributed by Dan Sully (28 Jul '03)
  - fdbfonts.tar.gz several fdb fonts for use with SWF.
  - A patch allowing pl to be compiled with a new GD version that reintroduces gif support along with later GD features such as Freetype font support, etc. The patch was tested with libgd with gif support gd-2.0.12gif.tar.gz but probably works with any version of libgd newer than 1.8.4. The ploticus API is not supported by this patch. Contributed by Lukas Zimmermann, 12 Apr 2003. (The GIF-enabled libgd is at http://www.rime.com.au/gd/)
    Note (Feb 7 '05): the mainstream version of GD now supports GIF - the GIF patents have expired.
  - Python interface. A wrapper for the libploticus library that provides an interface for making ploticus calls using Python. Received 29 Jan 2003.
  - psencodings.tar.gz contributed by Artur Zaprzala (zybi -at- talex.pl). A simple script (AWK+Python) that generates Latin2 encoding table for postscript files using pstables.h from Freetype. It will also work for any other 8-bit encoding supported by Python. Received 28 Jan 2003.
  - dates.patch A patch contributed by Stephen Deken that enhances date processing, supports additional date formats, etc. Received 26 Jun 2002.
  - nicehatching.tar.gz A patch contributed by Scott McPeak that implements additional crosshatch patterns (diagonal) for shading bar graphs. Includes a general purpose vector package.
  - ploticus.perl A perl script which implements a web interface to ploticus, by Tom McClure.
  data display engine
  Copyright Steve Grubb

  Markup created by unroff 1.0, `` `` August 23, 2005.