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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
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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