Hi all, In the past we've discussed at length various different packages with which to plot data for publication. As a result of such discussions, I even ended up maintaining a couple of these packages in Debian...
This time, I'm not looking for alternatives for plotting things but for a way of opening SigmaPlot files. I'm in the classic non-free software trap where I've been suckered in and am now trapped [1]: * I have with a set of data files that students and colleagues have prepared for me * They used the software that was preinstalled on their department-issued machines, meaning that I have lots of files in SigmaPlot as that was site- licensed at the time. * As soon as the site licence is no longer available (because you no longer renew it or because you no longer work at that institution), you can't use SigmaPlot. So... do we have any utility (in Debian or more widely in the free software ecosystem) that can open these .jnb files from SigmaPlot [2]? The ideal situation would be where I can import the entire notebook (data, calculated sets and then plots) into something [3], but would be happy to accept just being able to extract the data as columns in order to be able to plot it again using my graphics utility of choice. thanks in advance Stuart [1] Yes this is *exactly* the classic non-free software trap. You'd think I'd know better than to end up here... [2] JNB files are a notebook format of some description that contains "sheets" of data and "pages" of plots. The file format change incompatibly at SigmaPlot version 9ish (iirc); I have the newer format files. Magic information isn't very useful. $ file -k redacted.JNB redacted.JNB: Composite Document File V2 Document, Little Endian, Os 0, Version: 5.1, Title: Notebook, corrupt: Can't expand summary_info [3] I know packages like scidavis/qtiplot can open origin project files like this. -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ [email protected] Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
