PLOTMTV ( L ) LOCAL COMMANDS PLOTMTV ( L ) plotmtv
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1. pscolor Instructs the PostScript renderer to include colors in the PostScript description of the plot By default plotmtv produces gray scale PostScript plots The color PostScript file produced with this option may be printed out on a color PostScript printer Be aware however that the same file will not print out correctly on a black and white PostScript printer The color PostScript mode may also be set by setting the MTV_PSCOLOR environment variable i e setenv MTV_PSCOLOR ON 3d_ Plots in 3D instead of the default 2D vy Makes plotmtv more talkative d Makes plotmtv extremely loquacious l Prints the PostScript plot in landscape mode rotated 90 noframe Prints the PostScript plot without a bounding box frame The bounding box frame is drawn only when the plot is printed with a scale value less than 1 Specifying this option turns off the frame nodate Prints the PostScript plot without a time date stamp noxplot noplot Stops the program from starting up the X11 graphics routines The normal mode of operation is start up plotmtv from an X terminal or X display and interact with the graphics using the Graphi cal User Interface However the noxplot option is also provided to allow the plots to be directly Sun Release 4 1 Last change July 16 1995 2 PLOTMTV L LOCAL COMMANDS PLOTMTV L drawn in PostScript thus bypassing the X11 plotting routines This is particularly useful for batch mode operation2. where multiple plots can be sent to a printer without user intervention plotall Plots all the datasets found in a single plot Useful for combining data from different files print Sends the PostScript plot to the printer automatically Usually this is used together with the nox plot option to produce PostScript plots in batch i e plotmtv noxplot print datafile scale scale Sets a plot scale factor This is used only for PostScript plotting pfg foreground_color fg foreground color pbg background_color bg background color Sets the foreground and background colors in the plotmtv X11 Plot Window display host display screen Opens a window on the given host and display geom geometry Set the window geometry The geometry is specified using the X11 geometry convention lt width gt x lt height gt lt xoffset gt lt yoffset gt rv Reverse the foreground and background colors in the plotmtv X11 Plot Window clobber Deletes the input datafiles after quitting the program This is a very dangerous option and should be used with caution This option is useful primarily when calling plotmtv from a separate pro gram data filel data file2 Specifies the MTVDAT data file s ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES PRINTER printer name for hardcopy e g hpps MTV_PRINTER_CMD name of the UNIX print command e g lpr h MTV_PSCOLOR for color PostScript e g ON MTV_WRB_COLORMAP uses a different color map for
3. contours e g ON MTV_USE_ISOLATIN_FONT is used to turn off the ISOLATIN PostScript Plot e g OFF MTV_PSFONT1 specifies the size of the top label PostScript font e g 25 MTV_PSFONT2 specifies the size of the axis label PostScript font e g 20 MTV_PSFONT3 specifies the size of the axis ticks PostScript font e g 15 MTV_PSFONT4 specifies the size of the side label PostScript font e g 12 MTV_PSFONTS5 specifies the size of the annotations PostScript font e g 12 MTV_PSFONT6 specifies the size of the date stamp PostScript font e g 10 MTV_PSFONT7 specifies the size of the contour label PostScript font e g 8 HISTORY plotmtv is based on the DRAWPLOT CONTOUR and PDRAW programs from U C Berkeley yes Pm responsible for those too plotmtv essentially combines all the capabilities of the three packages into one single package Sun Release 4 1 Last change July 16 1995 3 PLOTMTV L LOCAL COMMANDS PLOTMTV L BUGS LIMITATIONS The GUI is very limited The 3D viewing stuff is quite limited too hidden surface removal is imple mented as a simple painter s algorithm so large 3D polygons don t get plotted with hidden surfaces correctly Also there are no perspective plots yet and probably never will be plotmtv uses some level 2 PostScript commands This sometimes causes plots to disappear if plotted on older PostScript level 1 printers If this happens try setting the environment variable MTV_USE_ISO
4. D plot only rotate down 10 3D plot only rotate up 10 3D plot only rotate left 10 3D plot only rotate right 90 3D plot only rotate down 90 3D plot only nae ro po BS Sun Release 4 1 Last change July 16 1995 1 PLOTMTV L LOCAL COMMANDS PLOTMTV L rotate up 90 3D plot only rotate left 90 3D plot only return to original view 3D plot only project on x y plane 3D plot only project on y z plane 3D plot only project on x z plane 3D plot only lt NO MOQ DATA FORMAT plotmtv uses the MTVDAT data format which is too long to describe in this document The data for mat is described fully in The MTV Plot Data Format document OPTIONS mult Brings up an X window with multiple plots This is a useful way of comparing different plots on the same page Pprinter Specifies the printer to which to send the PostScript plot The default uses the printer name from the environment variable PRINTER Note plotmtv will send a PostScript file to the specified printer only if the size of the file is less than 1000Kbytes This maximum file size is due to the limitations of the UNIX Ipr 1 command printemd print_command Specifies the print_command to be executed in sending a PostScript plot to the printer The default is the UNIX lpr h command The print_command may also be set using the environ ment variable MTV_PRINTER_CMD i e setenv MTV_PRINTER_CMD lpr h colorps color
5. LATIN_FONT to False i e setenv MTV_USE_ISOLATIN_FONT False AUTHOR FILES Kenny K H Toh ktoh td2cad intel com dataplot ps default PostScript file SEE ALSO The MTV Plot Data Format Sun Release 4 1 Last change July 16 1995 4
6. PLOTMTV L LOCAL COMMANDS PLOTMTV L NAME plotmtv fast multi purpose plotting program for X11 windows SYNOPSIS plotmtv mult Pprinter printcmd print_command colorps 3d v d l scale scale noframe nodate noxplot plotall print pbg background_color pfg foreground_color geom geometry rv bg background_color fg foreground_color o postscript file clobber data filel data file2 DESCRIPTION plotmtv is a fast and convenient X11 program for visualization of scientific data The program reads in data in the MTVDAT format and plots each dataset in the data file in turn Each plot comes with a simple but functional Graphical User Interface GUI which allows users to zoom in or pan to areas of interest on the plot or to toggle between 2D and 3D plots The plots may then be sent directly to a grayscale or color PostScript printer for hard copy output plotmtv s capabilities include 2D line and scatter plots x vs y contour plots 3D surface line and scatter plots as well as vector plots The program has been extended recently to include probability plots barcharts and histograms See the MTV Plot Data Format for details on the data formats used to specify data for the above mentioned plot types The Graphical User Interface for plotmtv is quite limited consisting of several toggle buttons for set ting commonly used plot options and an interactive zoom and pan capability v
7. ia the mouse The GUI also allows toggling between 2D and 3D plots rotating 3D plots and some limited customization of the resultant plots Through the GUI one can also print the plot using the Print button or save the Postscript plot to a file using the Print to File button If more than one data file or data set is specified a small page widget will appear in the lower left corner of the plotmtv plot window The page widget allows one to page between different plots using the same window by clicking on the Up or Down buttons The X11 plot in plotmtv can also be controlled from the keyboard i e by pressing specific keys on the keyboard while the mouse is within the X11 plot window Pressing on n next and p previous pages between different plots while pressing the q key is a fast way of exiting the Saat For the 3D plot the viewing vector can be changed using the h j k I and o keys on the keyboard the plot on the screen can be rotated sideways using the h or 1 ae rotated up or down using the j and k keys and drawn with the original viewing vector using o The a s d and f keys will produce 90 rotations z will plot the image projected on the x y plane a y will plot the image projected on the x z plane y constant and x will plot the image projected on its y Z plane x constant Key Action page to the previous plot page to the next plot end program rotate right 10 3
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