I installed Gnuplot 4.7 (
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/gp470-20120916-win32-mingw-setup.zip)
and that fixed the title gibberish. Awesome! :-)


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Craig DeForest <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hmmm, not sure what's up with those fonts.  I'd definitely try moving to
> the latest gnuplot executable.  If that works well, I'll stick some more
> gates into the microsoft-brain-damage logic.
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Jovan Trujillo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks guys,
>    Yes a CPAN build of PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot seems to work well under
> Windows XP with Strawberry Perl 5.12.1. That's even with Gnuplot 4.4, which
> was installed when I installed Python(x,y). Running the PDL demo works but
> the plot title's have some gibberish mixed in (
> http://www.public.asu.edu/~jtrujil1/scrap/pdl_gnuplot.PNG). Maybe that's
> just because I'm using an old version of Gnuplot.
>
> The Prima demo works well, but hangs at the end of the demo. Doesn't kill
> PDL though. Installation was painless.
>
> By "Best" I meant the most painless way to get something going. Looks like
> both packages are doing well on Windows XP. I like Gnuplot a lot too, and
> I'm glad it was ported to PDL. Really helps make the system portable.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Craig DeForest 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> "Best" is a matter of opinion.  I like gnuplot a lot, and several kind
>> folks donated a Hell of a lot of time to iron out the IPC gotchas and make
>> it work under Windows.  I'd like to hear your experience to see if it
>> really does work "in the wild".
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Jovan Trujillo <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I've been wanted to use more of PDL for a while now, but the machines
>> at work run on Windows XP. What is the best way to get plots working on a
>> Windows machine? Gnuplot?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jovan
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