Veusz 0.10
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Velvet Ember Under Sky Zenith
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http://home.gna.org/veusz/

Veusz is Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>
Licenced under the GPL (version 2 or greater).

Veusz is a scientific plotting package written in Python, using PyQt
for display and user-interfaces, and numarray for handling the numeric
data. Veusz is designed to produce publication-ready Postscript
output. The user interface aims to be simple, consistent and powerful.

Veusz provides a GUI, command line, embedding and scripting interface
(based on Python) to its plotting facilities. It also allows for
manipulation and editing of datasets.

Changes from 0.9:
 Please refer to ChangeLog for all the changes.
 Highlights include:
   * CSV import of data
   * Stylesheets to easily change graph appearance
   * Many user interface improvements
   * Extra plotting features and bug fixes

Features of package:
 * X-Y plots (with errorbars)
 * Contour plots
 * Images (with colour mappings)
 * Stepped plots (for histograms)
 * Line plots
 * Function plots
 * Fitting functions to data
 * Stacked plots and arrays of plots
 * Plot keys
 * Plot labels
 * LaTeX-like formatting for text
 * EPS output
 * Simple data importing
 * Scripting interface
 * Save/Load plots
 * Dataset manipulation
 * Embed Veusz within other programs

Requirements:
 Python (probably 2.3 or greater required)
   http://www.python.org/
 Qt (free edition)
   http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/  
 PyQt (SIP is required to be installed first)
   http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/
   http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/
 numarray
   http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray
 Microsoft Core Fonts (recommended)
   http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
 PyFITS (optional)
   http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyfits

For documentation on using Veusz, see the "Documents" directory. The
manual is in pdf, html and text format (generated from docbook).

If you enjoy using Veusz, I would love to hear from you. Please join
the mailing lists at

https://gna.org/mail/?group=veusz

to discuss new features or if you'd like to contribute code. The
latest code can always be found in the SVN repository.

If non GPL projects are interested in using Veusz code, please contact
me. I am happy to consider relicencing code for other free projects,
if I am legally allowed to do so.

Jeremy Sanders

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