Re: will this print a plot?

[Valdis Kletnieks vt edu]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:42:20 PDT, "Yanke, Diane" <dyanke coi-world com>  said:
> Will GTK+ create a menu for an operator, allow selections and get values to
> define a plot, plot data, and print it to a color printer?  My data can be
> on the order of 3M color polygons.  I have not seen anything on printing,
> except a mention of canvas, but not how it is done.  I need to plot lines to
> form a grid, text to annotate and colored polygons.  

Not really GTK's job, it's a subroutine package to do on-screen graphics and
widgets.
 
> What format is it printed in?  Postscript, HPGL?  
> Is it a screen capture print?  I need high quality, fast prints since we do
> a lot of them, hundreds of pages a day.  
> Is there other software which may be better for my application?   

gnuplot is a stand-alone program that may be what you're looking for.

/Valdis