DISLIN Scientific Plotting Software

 

Product Overview

DISLIN is a high-level plotting library of subroutines and functions for graphically displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours and maps. It is a powerful and easy to use software package for programmers and scientists that does not require knowledge of hardware features. DISLIN is free for non-commercial use.
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- Key Features
- Product Description
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Key Benefits

  • The library contains about 400 plotting and parameter setting routines.
  • A large variety of parameter setting routines can be called to create customized graphics.
  • DISLIN can display graphic information directly on graphic terminals or store them in metafiles.
  • DISLIN programs are system-independent, they can be ported from one operating system to another without any changes.

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Key Features

The library contains the following features:

  • 9 software fonts where each font provides 6 alphabets. PostScript fonts for PostScript, PDF and SVG output, X11 fonts for X terminals and TrueType fonts for Windows displays and WMF files can also be used.The different aphabets contain Roman, Greek, Russian, mathematical and special European characters. TeX instructions can be used for plotting mathematical formulas.
  • Plotting of two- and three-dimensional axis systems. Axes can be linearly or logarithmically scaled and labeled with linear, logarithmic, time, date, map and user-defined formats.
  • Plotting of curves. Several curves can appear in one axis system and can be differentiated by colour, line style and pattern. Multiple axis system can be displayed on a page.
  • Plotting of legends.
  • Elementary plot routines for lines, vectors and outlined or filled regions such as rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses and polygons.
  • Shielded regions can be defined.
  • Business graphics.
  • 3-D colour graphics.
  • 3-D graphics
  • Elementary image routines
  • Geographical projections and plotting of maps
  • Contouring
  • Graphical user interface (GUI) routines based on Motif and Windows API functions
Product Description

DISLIN is intended to be a powerful and easy to use software package for scientists and programmers. There are only a few graphics routines with a short parameter list needed to display the desired graphical output. A large variety of parameter setting routines can then be called to create individually customized graphics.

The software is available for several C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90/95 compilers on the operating systems UNIX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenVMS, Windows and MS-DOS. DISLIN programs are very system-independent, they can be ported from one operating system to another without any changes.

DISLIN can display graphic information directly on graphic terminals or store them in metafiles. The supported display types are VGA, X Windows, Windows API and Tektronix. The supported file formats are GKSLIN, CGM, HPGL, PostScript, PDF, WMF, SVG, PNG, BMP, GIF and TIFF. DISLIN metafiles can either be printed on various devices using the DISLIN driver program DISDRV or imported into third party products such as TeX and MS Word.

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Examples

Examples are provided here for DISLIN.

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Order Information

Product name: DISLIN

Product availability:

DISLIN is immediately available for 32-bit Windows, and 32-bit or 64-bit Linux.

Pricing and Orders: Contact DISLIN

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Compatibility

The following is a version compatibility listing of Absoft Fortran compilers and DISLIN:

 

Platform

CPU Type

Absoft Fortran Version

Windows

x86

Linux

x86_64

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