Unix Graphing Programs?

An anonymous reader asks: "For university I am looking for a program to make some nice 2D or 3D graphs to represent some data for statistics. I am currently using RedHat Fedora as my Linux distro but KChart, Gnumeric, OpenOffice, and the other ones I found weren't suitable. It would be nice if the "template" was easily configurable so I could standarize all of my work. i.e. have the actual value next to the bar etc.. It's mainly bar graphs that I need. Does anyone have any recommendations for good easy Linux programs to graph general data? professor didn't have any ideas for Linux."

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What ARE you asking?

[ratboy666]

OpenOffice.org spreadsheet was not suitable?

You need bar graphs --

pic, grap (you will have to add), gnuplot, postscript.

All more complicated than OO. pic is a drawing language for troff. grap will do simple graphs (but you will have to download and install it), gnuplot is a workhorse for doing plots, but is many times more difficult than OO. And, you can always program in postscript directly! [and there are many more ways to make simple charts, including paint style programs).

Or, use OO.org

With OO.org, try:

Select some numbers that you want in a bar chart (highlight), then click (and hold) the icon on the left that looks like a pie-chart. A push-out menu appears, select the pie-chart within that. Position the chart (don't worry, you can move it later), and follow the wizard for the rest.

Best of all, the chart is live with your data -- change the data, the graph will change.

I'm curious as to why this didn't meet your needs...

Ratboy