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The Graphics Cookbook

STARLINK Cookbook 15.2
A. Allan, D. Terrett
22nd August 2000

CCLRC / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council

Starlink Project

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Abstract
Revision history
Introduction
Call for contributions
Subroutine Libraries
- The PGPLOT library
- The BUTTON library
- The pgperl package
- Python PGPLOT
- GLISH PGPLOT
- ptcl Tk/Tcl and PGPLOT
- Starlink/Native PGPLOT
- Graphical Kernel System (GKS)
  - Enquiring about the display
  - Compiling and Linking GKS programs
- Simple Graphics System (SGS)
- PLplot Library
  - PLplot and 3D Surface Plots
- The libjpeg Library
- The giflib Library
- The libungif Library
- The angif Library
- The PNG Format
- The MNG Format
- The Python Imaging Library
- The gd Library
  - gd from other languages
Plotting Packages
- QDP
- PONGO
- SM
- GNUplot
  - Co-ordinate systems
  - Plotting 3D data
Image Display
- KAPPA
- SAOimage
  - Printing in SAOimage
- GAIA
Visualisation
Other Applications
- ImageMagick
- XV
- XPaint
- Xfig
  - pstoedit
- Sketch
- GIMP
- Electric Eyes
- WhirlGIF
CAD Applications
- QCad
- XCircuit
Format Conversion
- CONVERT
  - NDF2GIF
- PBMplus
  - PBM, PGM, PPM or PNM images?
- Image Resizing
Postscript and PDF
- Ghostscript
- GV and Ghostview
- Acrobat
- psmerge
- epsutil
- prescript and pstotext
- Postscript to PDF
- PS Utils
- Generating Postscript Output
X Window Displays
- Pseudocolor
- Grey Scale
- Static Grey
- Directcolor
- Truecolor
- What does this mean for you?
- Pseudo Colour applications on True Colour desktops
Virtual Computing
- Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
  - Pseudo colour displays
  - Computing by remote control
- VMWare
- plex86 (previously FreeMWare)
- The VMWare and plex86 Patent Position
Hardware
- Scanners
- Digital Cameras
The Web
- Transparent GIFs
- Animated GIFs
- Beveled Images
- ``Web Safe'' Colour Maps
- Browser support of PNG images
The GIF Legal Position
From the Quick Archives
- FITS to MPEG
Package Availability
Acknowledgments
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