[reportlab-users] Re: Plotting with logarithmic axes

Robin Becker reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:13:42 +0100


In article <288C3227-C28E-11D7-A545-00039345C610@darwin.in-berlin.de>,
Dinu Gherman <gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de> writes
......
>Looking at Gnuplot, which can also be very interactive, you'll find
>the commands "set/unset logscale" which I find more useful in this
>context.
>
>If you play a little bit with it you can quickly write a ReportLab-
>Graphics wrapper like I did to produce diagrams like these (making
>also use of my svglib module):
>
>  http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/lin_exp_x.pdf
>  http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/log_exp_x.pdf
>
>Gnuplot also writes PDF directly (using pdflib), but if you write
>your own wrapper you can reuse Gnuplot charts in your own RL docs,
>possibly really complicated ones like many on this page:
>
>  http://warmada.pandu.org/Graphics/gallery
>
>Regards,
>
>Dinu
....that seems more like the way to go in my opinion ie make the base
object cleverer. What other kinds of scaling can we imagine?
-- 
Robin Becker