Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!ukma!uflorida!haven!ncifcrf!toms From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: fig as standard? Keywords: fig, PostScript, xyplo, plotting, graphics Message-ID: <620@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Date: 21 Sep 88 21:04:16 GMT References: <3562@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Organization: NCI Supercomputer Center, Frederick, MD Lines: 21 In article <3562@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) asked about device independent xy plotting and graphics. George: as you know, I when I was in Boulder I wrote the xyplo program (in Pascal), and this program does reasonable xy graphics. Xyplo's output is a pure ascii graph description language, and I now have a conversion program (dops) that converts to PostScript, and runs fine on both Suns and Apple Laserwriters. Gary Stormo's GenHis program now also works to GENerate HIStograms. I can send copies of these programs to people interested. If there is enough demand I'll put it up for anonymous ftp. I've used the fig program (Original author: Supoj Sutanthavibul, perhaps not the same as transfig?) , and found it works wonderfully, though there are some bugs in it. There is a converter to PostScript that (unfortunately) produces lines that exceed the Laserwriter buffer (they shouldn't have allowed any lines to exceed 70 characters, to be safe) - I have a filter that fixes that. Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland toms@ncifcrf.gov