© 1999 Michael J. Hammel

The source code for the package is available as a gzipped tar file, 2.8 megabytes in size.  It's available on the main GNU ftp site, as ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/plotutils/plotutils-2.2.tar.gz , and at many GNU mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org for details).

For the benefit of people using Red Hat or similar versions of GNU/Linux on Intel systems, I've created a pair of RPM's for the package.  They're at:

 ftp://platinum.math.arizona.edu/pub/plotutils-2.2-1.i386.rpm
 ftp://platinum.math.arizona.edu/pub/plotutils-2.2-1.src.rpm

The long-awaited library-level support for graphing didn't make it into this release, unfortunately.  But it may make it into the next release (2.3).  The next file format to be supported will probably be CGM.

All bug reports and suggestions for improvements are welcome.  It would be a good idea to mail them to bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org as well as to me, to give other people the chance to respond.

Robert S. Maier   rsm@math.arizona.edu
Dept. of Math.
Univ. of Arizona

Maintainer of the GNU plotting utilities package
(see http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html ).

gView is a GTK/ImLib image viewer with an interface similar to ACDSee.
Changes: Fixed a compile time bug in the Save Config functions, added image grab-n'-scroll and red/blue/green color adjustments.  Other bugfixes included.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/1468/sg/

Giram Is Really A Modeller (or at least will be). It is written with the GTK+ User interface v1.1 or v1.2. It is still in early stages of development. It can load and save Persistance of Vision Scenes, some basic modelling tools are already there and it's growing very fast.

Changes: Cool plugins interface, two plugins, Cut, Copy and Paste of objects, double clicking on a Tool will now bring up the 'Tool Options Box', a little bug about Cone selection has been removed, and better documentation.  There are also Light Sources, parsing, creation and drawing of 'Surface of Revolution' objects, online tutorial, new version of Povfront, and bugfixes.
http://www.minet.net/giram/

X-Mame is the Unix version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, an arcade (coin-op) video game emulator. The latest development release is capable of playing over 1241 arcade and Neo Geo games.

Changes: Added everything from MS-DOS b10, the debugger should work again, GGI support has been updated for GGI 2.0b2, and various Solaris fixes have been made (sound, working XIL, and MITSHM).
http://xmame.retrogames.com/

tgif is a vector-based draw tool, with the additional benefit of being sort of a web-browser. That is, you can fetch drawings from a web server with it, and you can make objects in your picture into hotlinks to other parts of the drawing, or to other drawings accessible via http.

Changes: Added NLS support for menus, fixed bugs with overthespot for the xim input method, open/save/import gzipped obj files, and add a bunch of internal commands to make it a little easier for third party code to drive tgif.
http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/

R is a system for statistical computation and graphics. It consists of a language plus a run-time environment with graphics, a debugger, access to certain system functions, and the ability to run programs stored in script files. R implements a language which is not entirely unlike the S language developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories by Rick Becker, John Chambers and Allan Wilks.  Indeed in the absence of an R manual, you can (mostly) get along by using the S manual.

Changes: This is a major new release with many new features and bug fixes. New features include filled contour plots, improved X11 color handling, shading in perspective plots, socket interfaces, planar convex hulls, and more.  There is also now an experimental GNOME version of R.
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R

XawTV is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or video4linux. It contains various command-line utilities for grabbing images and avi movies, for tuning in TV stations, etc. A grabber driver for vic and a radio application (needs KDE) for the boards with radio support are included as well.

Changes: avi recording completed, minor alpha fixes, mklinux support, improved Xideo extention support, a few tweaks here and there.
http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html

Ilib is an image manipulation library for developers. It's capable of reading and writing images (PPM & GIF) and many drawing functions including drawing lines and text using and any BDF (X11) font. It's great for generating GIFs from a CGI and generating graphs. Ilib includes sample applications for generating graphs for HTTP access.log files and QuakeWorld server frag log files.

Changes: Bug fixes and a new client application that will draw all a BDF font's characters to an image.
http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/Ilib/

GXanim is a graphical frontend for the XAnim movie player program based on the GTK+ widget set. The user can quickly locate a Quicktime/AVI/etc. file, play it, and use basic VCR-like features on the playing clip. You can now interactively set the volume as well as playing preferences.

Changes: This is a service subrelease. A bug in config.h that could have complicated installation as well as a bug which prevented the playing of certain AVI files have both been fixed.
http://www.iag.net/~aleris

gfontview is a small font viewer for PostScript and TrueType fonts. It allows you to display any character or string in a particular font as well as all glyphs present in it. It supports antialiasing and kerning. It can also print font samples in several sizes.

Changes: Ported to GTK+ 1.2 and uses the autoconf package now.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/

Scitech Display Doctor is the ultimate graphics utility package that will improve your PC's graphics performance, ensure that applications run correctly and fix many common graphics problems.

Changes: This release is the same as the previous Beta5, but it fixes a few fatal problems that prevented it from installing correctly. It should install fine now.
http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd_linux.html

The GIMP Imagemap plug-in enables The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) to create clickable imagemaps in CSIM, CERN or NCSA format.

Changes: Plug-in now works correctly for GIF and grayscale images, finished implementation of NCSA and CERN mapfiles and implemented 'Close' menu item. A serious bug in 'Zoom To' menu has been fixed as well.
http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736/

Panorama is a framework for 3D graphics production. It will include modelling, rendering, animating, post-processing, etc. There's currently no support for animation, but this feature will be added soon.

Changes: Added PNG and JPEG plugins, added subdivision surface experimental plugin, fixed some minor compilation problems, and better support of different operating systems.
http://www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html

RayChase is a fast random recursive raytracer which will render cool images all by itself and will display them on your desktop. It has been tested on KDE, Gnome, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, etc. One can also write the output to a image file (interactivly updating web pages). RayChase versions exist for FreeBSD, MSDOG, WinNT, Win9x, OS/2 and PowerPC.

Changes: This version (2.05) is a specific Linux (and FreeBSD) version with some added features. Visit the webpage for additional info.
http://members.linuxstart.com/~flux/

LAGII lets you run AGI games natively under Linux. AGI games include the Sierra classics such as Kings Quest, Space Quest, etc. Most games don't work fully, but they work quite well most of the time.

http://www.zip.com.au/~gsymonds/LAGII/

kdem is an OpenGL viewer for USGS Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). It can read the new Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) format as well as the old text format. It supports the SpaceTec "SpaceOrb 360" game controller.
http://home.i1.net/~jamoyers/kdem/

XawTV is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or video4linux. It contains various command-line utilities for grabbing images and avi movies, for tuning in TV stations, etc. A grabber driver for vic and a radio application (needs KDE) for the boards with radio support are included as well.

Changes: Video updates, some bttv changes to make it more compatible to the kernel version, removed the "unmute-on-open", updated the open/close for radio too, unbundled the bttv driver, errors are reported with a dialog box now, channel handling is completely rewritten. added some missing channels for japan, the -i and -n switches in streamer work again, fixed core dump with nonaudio devices, updated videodev2.h.

http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html

CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the screensaver from "The Matrix" from the movie's website. It works with your terminal settings (up to 300 columns wide) and can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously.

Changes: New scrolling motion (more like the movie, less like the Mac/Win screensavers). To get the original scrolling effect, flag -o has been added.
http://www.plattsburgh.edu/faculty/allegrcr/cmatrix/index.html

Gqcam is a GTK based clone of QuickPict, the program that comes with QuickCams.
http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/gqcam/

© 1999 by Michael J. Hammel