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Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting. It is also used as a plotting engine by third-party applications like Octave. Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986.
Gnuplot supports many different types of 2D and 3D plots
Gnuplot supports many different types of output
| interactive screen display: | cross-platform (Qt, wxWidgets, x11) or system-specific (MS Windows, OS/2) |
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| direct output to file: | postscript (including eps), pdf, png, gif, jpeg, LaTeX, metafont, emf, svg, ... |
| mouseable web display formats: | HTML5, svg |
| Release History gnuplot 6.0 Dec 2023 ( 6.0.1 May 2024) gnuplot 5.4 Jul 2020 ( 5.4.10 Oct 2023) gnuplot 5.2 Sep 2017 ( 5.2.8 Dec 2019) gnuplot 5.0 Jan 2015 gnuplot 4.6 2012 gnuplot 4.4 2010 gnuplot 4.2 2007 gnuplot 4.0 2004 gnuplot 3.7 1999 gnuplot 3.5 1993 gnuplot 2.0 1990 gnuplot 1.0 1986 Copyright/licensing Gnuplot's copyright | | | 
Gnuplot 5 by Lee Phillips Packt Publishing (2017) ISBN : 978-0-692-92716-8 |
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