Overview
Introduction
DISLIN is a high level library of subroutines and functions that display data graphically. It is intended to be a powerful and easy to use software package for programmers and scientists that does not require knowledge of hardware features. The software is available for the programming languages C/C++, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90/95. For some operating systems, the languages Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Tcl, Julia, R, FreeBASIC, Free Pascal and the C/C++ interpreter Ch are also supported.
DISLIN can display graphic information directly on graphic terminals or store them in metafiles. The supported display types are VGA, X Windows, Windows API and OpenGL. The supported file formats are GKSLIN, CGM, HPGL, PostScript, PDF, WMF, SVG, PNG, BMP, PPM, GIF and TIFF. DISLIN metafiles can either be printed on various devices using the DISLIN driver program DISDRV or imported into third party products such as TeX and MS Word.
The library contains the following features:
- 9 software fonts where each font provides 6 alphabets. PostScript fonts for PostScript, PDF and SVG output, X11 fonts for X terminals and TrueType fonts for Windows displays and WMF files can also be used. The different aphabets contain Roman, Greek, Russian, mathematical and special European characters. TeX instructions can be used for plotting mathematical formulas.
- Plotting of two- and three-dimensional axis systems. Axes can be linearly or logarithmically scaled and labeled with linear, logarithmic, time, date, map and user-defined formats.
- Plotting of curves. Several curves can appear in one axis system and can be differentiated by colour, line style and pattern. Multiple axis system can be displayed on a page.
- Plotting of legends.
- Elementary plot routines for lines, vectors and outlined or filled regions such as rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses and polygons.
- Shielded regions can be defined.
- Business graphics.
- 3-D colour graphics.
- 3-D graphics.
- Elementary image routines.
- Geographical projections and plotting of maps.
- Contouring.
- Graphical user interface (GUI) routines based on Motif and Windows API functions.
Manuals in English are available in the online help of DISLIN, or can be downloaded in HTML format.
A printed book of Dislin can be ordered from the publisher, or directly from the author.
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The Data Plotting Software DISLIN - Version 11by Helmut Michels (Author)
Paperback
: 353 pages
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Hard- and Software Requirements
At the moment, DISLIN versions are available for the following hard- and software components:
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License
Since version 11.3 the DISLIN distributions can be used freely without any restrictions. Access to the source code is availabe from this site via a support contract.
The following support contracts are available:
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Notes:
- All prices above are final prices.
- The contract period is one year or three years.
- Multi User contracts are suitable for companies with multiple DISLIN users.
- The contract allows a password protected access to the DISLIN source code and a preferred treatment of bug fixes and problem solution.
- Payment for the support can be done with PayPal, by money transfer to a bank account, or by cheque.
Author
Helmut Michels
Dislin Software
Am Hachweg 10
37083 Göttingen, Germany
Tel.: +49 551 29348389
Email: michels@dislin.de
DISLIN Web Site
The DISLIN Home Page is:
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News
28. July 2023
Bug fix for the X11 distributions
22. July 2023
Upgrade 11.5.1
25. April 2023
Support for Linux 64-bit on IBM z series
30. October 2022
Support for MingW 64-bit UCRT runtime environment
28. September 2022
Release 11.5
15. March 2022
Release 11.4
15. March 2021
Support for Free Pascal 64-bit on Windows
22. July 2020
Upgrade 11.3.3
28. June 2020
Upgrade 11.3.2
19. May 2020
DISLIN Book Version 11 is available
8. March 2017