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diff --git a/academic/veusz/README b/academic/veusz/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ed10e839e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/veusz/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Veusz - A Scientific Plotting Package + +Veusz is a GUI scientific plotting and graphing package. +It is designed to produce publication-ready Postscript or PDF output. +SVG, EMF and bitmap export formats are also supported. + +The program runs under Unix/Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, and binaries are provided. +Data can be read from text, CSV, HDF5 or FITS files. +In addition, you can also enter, manipulate or examine data from within the application. +In Veusz plots are created by building up plotting widgets with a consistent object-based interface. +The program also provides a command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to its plotting facilities + It can also act as a Python plotting module. +Veusz is written in Python. Its user interface uses PyQt and Numpy is used to manipulate data. + +The hdf5 library is needed only if you want to use HDF5 files. |