Using the gallery examples


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Manual page for Using_the_gallery_examples(PL)

You can click on any example image in the gallery to see more.

Prefab examples

For prefab examples, you will arrive at the prefab's man page and you can view additional examples, along with the commands that were used.

Script examples

For script examples, you will see the image with the ploticus script that generated the image. Are the script files HTML? Not really. They are ploticus script files. They are named with an .htm suffix and contain some HTML tags, to allow them to look nice when displayed in your web browser. Ploticus ignores the HTML tags.

Script file names: can be anything, although a .p, .pl, .pls or .htm suffix is recommended.


As you ar using this on a Debian system, all of the example files and any supporting data files may be found in /usr/share/doc/ploticus/html/gallery/.
To download a script that you are viewing in your browser, use your browser's File/Save As menu button. The result should be HTML ("Source"). The downloaded file will be placed in your local current working directory (the directory where you started your browser). If the script references other files (e.g. a data file), you will need to download those as well (a link should be provided).


To try ploticus on your own system: After you have downloaded the software, suppose you then downloaded the ploticus script called lineplot1.htm

  • To create a PNG file (lineplot1.png), type this command:
    ploticus -png lineplot1.htm

  • To create an EPS file (lineplot1.eps), type:
    ploticus -eps lineplot1.htm

  • To create paginated PostScript, and send it directly to your printer, type:
    ploticus -ps lineplot1.htm | lp

  • To view on an X11 display, type:
    ploticus -x11 lineplot1.htm



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