[OS X TeX] GNUPLOT on Mac

[Aaron Jackson]

No, you don't need gd.  Accroding to the gnuplot documentation:

If you want to support gif output, you need to download,
compile and install the gd library : see term/gif.trm for details.

Gnuplot is one of the easiest UNIX programs to install.  Depending on  
what version of LaTeX is installed, most of the optional libraries  
are included with the distribution.

On May 23, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Vic Norton wrote:

> The part about the png files together with the "easy to compile"  
> comment is not exactly true. I believe that you need to install GD  
> before installing gnuplot if you want to be able to use the png  
> terminal. See
>    <http://www.libgd.org/DOC_INSTALL_OSX>.
> I may be wrong about this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vic
>
> On May 23, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>
>> If you never want to see the plots (within gnuplot itself), then  
>> gnuplot can save them directly to disk as LaTeX, pdf, eps, png,...  
>> files, which means, in this case, that X11 and Aquaterm are not  
>> needed.
>>
>> Gnuplot is very easy to compile.
>
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