Re: Plotting a graph on a web page

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From: Mark Heath
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:00

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Marcelo Cantos (marcelo@mds.rmit.edu.au) wrote:

: You could call gnuplot, but that's probably an expensive way to do it,
: since you would have to go through several stages to get to GIF.  I
: would suggest looking around for a GIF library for C.

If you're after a gif package for (in) C check out the netpbm utilities.

The PPM/PGM/PBM file formats are very simple to write but I dont know of 
many browsers which grok P[PGB]M.

At the very least you could pipe your output through ppmtogif (part of 
the netpbm package)

Hang on doesn't gnuplot produce ppm files??

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