Making plots with Perl

Author: John M. Gabriele | back to index

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There seems to be a number of modules out there for this, and similar tasks, so I'm going to try and weed through them and find a fairly plain and simple one to make plain and simple plots (sometimes aka "graphs").

Searching CPAN for "plotting" yields 294 hits. Hm. Two prominent ones are Chart-Scientific and GDGraph.

PDL sounds like more than I need, so for now I'm not considering modules such as PDL's PLplot.

Read more about GD at http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page (previously http://www.boutell.com/gd/).

BTW, the tools you get with libgd-tools are:

/usr/bin/annotate
/usr/bin/bdftogd
/usr/bin/gd2copypal
/usr/bin/gd2topng
/usr/bin/gdparttopng
/usr/bin/gdtopng
/usr/bin/pngtogd
/usr/bin/pngtogd2
/usr/bin/webpng