Chapter 3. Advanced Use of PLplot

Table of Contents

Command Line Arguments
Devices
Driver Functions
Family File Output
Specifying the Output Device
Adding FreeType Library Support to Bitmap Drivers
View Surfaces, (Sub-)Pages, Viewports and Windows
Defining the Viewport
Defining the Window
Annotating the Viewport
Setting up a Standard Window
Setting Line Attributes
Setting the Area Fill Pattern
Setting Color
Color Map0
Color Map1
Setting Character Attributes
Hershey font system
Unicode font system
FCI
Escape sequences in text
Character size adjustment
Three-dimensional Plots
Surface Plots
Contour Plots
Shade plots
Image plots
Vector plots
Legends and color bars

We describe advanced use of PLplot in this chapter which includes many cross-references to elements of our common (C) API that use PLplot C types such as PLFLT and PLINT. For full documentation of all PLplot C types see here. The best way to learn how to use our common API for the language of your choice is to look at our standard set of examples. For additional language documentation you should consult the various chapters in Part III, “ Supported computer languages ” as well.