What is gnuplot terminal?

gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. It can be used to plot functions and data points in both two- and three- dimensional plots in many different formats. It is designed primarily for the visual display of scientific data.

What are possible output formats of gnuplot?

gnuplot can produce output directly on screen, or in many formats of graphics files, including Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JPEG and many others.

What is the default gnuplot terminal?

wxt
News: the default terminal is set to ‘wxt’ terminal instead of the traditional ‘windows’ terminal. The default terminal can be controlled by setting the ‘GNUTERM’ environmental variable or by putting ‘set term windows|wxt’ into gnuplot. ini.

What are the different kinds of terminals available in gnuplot give two examples?

Terminal types

• Aed767.
• Aifm.
• Amiga.
• Apollo.
• Aqua.
• Atari ST (via AES)
• Be. Command-line_options. Monochrome_options. Color_resources. Grayscale_resources. Line_resources.
• Cgi.

Which is the best terminal image for gnuplot?

For these terminals gnuplot requires libgd version >= 2.0. In order to get it available you have to install GD Graphics Library first: gnuplot> set terminal Available terminal types: gif GIF images using libgd and TrueType fonts jpeg JPEG images using libgd and TrueType fonts png PNG images using libgd and TrueType fonts

How to set the size of a terminal png?

I’m using Xubuntu 13.10 and I installed gnuplot by compiling it manully. However, when I test the feature of “plot” it got an error: $ python PlotSccDistr.py set terminal png size 1000,800 ^ “scc.example.plt”, line 16: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just ‘set terminal’ for a list

How do you choose the output format for gnuplot?

Gnuplot supports a large number of output formats. These are selected by choosing an appropriate terminal type, possibly with additional modifying options. See set terminal. This document may describe terminal types that are not available to you because they were not configured or installed on your system.

Are there any fonts that work with gnuplot?

Gnuplot does not provide any fonts of its own. It relies on external font handling, the details of which unfortunately vary from one terminal type to another. Brief documentation of font mechanisms that apply to more than one terminal type is given here. For information on font use by other individual terminals,…