# [Veusz 3.5.3](https://veusz.github.io)

Veusz is a scientific plotting package.  It is designed to produce
publication-ready PDF or SVG output. Graphs are built-up by combining
plotting widgets. The user interface aims to be simple, consistent and
powerful.

Veusz provides GUI, Python module, command line, scripting, DBUS and
SAMP interfaces to its plotting facilities. It also allows for
manipulation and editing of datasets. Data can be captured from
external sources such as Internet sockets or other programs.

Changes in 3.5.3:
  * Fix missing documentation

Changes in 3.5.2:
  * Fix broken ChangeLog

Changes in 3.5.1:
  * Fixes for EMF generating code (requires pyemf-3.1)

Changes in 3.5:
  * Improvements in fitting (thanks to Sebastian Koenig), including:
    - Assume absolute errors by default
    - Introduce minimum and maximum fit ranges
    - Add setting to give default error value and type (absolute/relative)
  * Fixes for macOS button appearance (Takuro Hosomi)
  * Plugin fixes, renaming --plugin to --veusz-plugin option
    (also thanks to Takuro Hosomi)
  * Bug fix for broken axis drawing
  * Mirrored axis bug fix
  * More keyboard shortcuts
  * Fix build system to use sip-build, which works with recent SIP versions
  * Change high DPI scaling policy
  * Support \_FillValue and missing_data attributes in HDF5 files for NetCDF
  * Switch to pyemf3 module for emf output

## Features of package:

### Plotting features:
  * X-Y plots (with errorbars)
  * Line and function plots
  * Contour plots
  * Images (with colour mappings and colorbars)
  * Stepped plots (for histograms)
  * Bar graphs
  * Vector field plots
  * Box plots
  * Polar plots
  * Ternary plots
  * Plotting dates
  * Fitting functions to data
  * Stacked plots and arrays of plots
  * Nested plots
  * Plot keys
  * Plot labels
  * Shapes and arrows on plots
  * LaTeX-like formatting for text
  * Multiple axes
  * Axes with steps in axis scale (broken axes)
  * Axis scales using functional forms
  * Plotting functions of datasets
  * 3D point plots
  * 3D surface plots
  * 3D function plots
  * 3D volumetric plots

### Input and output:
  * PDF/EPS/PNG/SVG/EMF export
  * Dataset creation/manipulation
  * Embed Veusz within other programs
  * Text, HDF5, CSV, FITS, NPY/NPZ, QDP, binary and user-plugin importing
  * Data can be captured from external sources

### Extending:
  * Use as a Python module
  * User defined functions, constants and can import external Python functions
  * Plugin interface to allow user to write or load code to
    - import data using new formats
    - make new datasets, optionally linked to existing datasets
    - arbitrarily manipulate the document
  * Scripting interface
  * Control with DBUS and SAMP

### Other features:
  * Data filtering and manipulation
  * Data picker
  * Interactive tutorial
  * Multithreaded rendering

## Requirements for source install:
  * [Python](https://www.python.org/) 3.x (3.3 or greater required)
  * [Qt](https://www.qt.io/) >= 5.5 (free edition)
  * [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/) >= 5.2  (Qt and SIP is required to be installed first)
  * [SIP](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/) >= 5
  * [Numpy](http://numpy.scipy.org/) >= 1.7

## Optional requirements:
* [h5py](https://www.h5py.org/) (optional for HDF5 support)
* [pyemf3](https://github.com/jeremysanders/pyemf3) (optional for EMF output)
* [iminuit](https://github.com/scikit-hep/iminuit) or PyMinuit >= 1.12 (optional improved fitting)
* [dbus-python](https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/), for dbus interface
* [astropy](https://www.astropy.org/) (optional for VO table import or FITS import)
* [SAMPy](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sampy/) or astropy >= 0.4 (optional for SAMP support)
* [Ghostscript](https://www.ghostscript.com/) (for EPS/PS output)

## License
Veusz is Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Jeremy Sanders
 and contributors. It is licensed under the [GPL version 2 or greater](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html).

The latest source code can be found in [this GitHub repository](https://github.com/veusz/veusz).