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| author | Stephane Wirtel <stephane@tinyerp.com> | 2008-12-15 11:07:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Stephane Wirtel <stephane@tinyerp.com> | 2008-12-15 11:07:09 +0100 |
| commit | 3ff2adc2e97cf4909be93ce52f6c2acaff2f32f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 05c33f8625cb1c6517675c305518e70da8919b6a /doc | |
| parent | e2e28edc2e3c6009f116252e2a7af8f591eda5b4 (diff) | |
[IMP] Remove the README of PyChart, because we use the package from the distribution
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diff --git a/doc/README.pychart b/doc/README.pychart deleted file mode 100644 index 88ae2156810..00000000000 --- a/doc/README.pychart +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ -* What is this package? - -PyChart is a Python library for creating professional quality PS, PDF, -PNG, or SVG charts. It supports line plots, bar plots, range-fill -plots, and pie charts. Because it is based on Python, you can make -the full use of Python's scripting power. - -The PyChart home page is at -http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Yasushi_Saito/pychart - -* What you need - -You need Python (http://www.python.org) version 2.2 or later (on -Debian GNU/Linux, you need, python-xml package as well). You also need -Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) to produce PNG -files. - - Pychart used to require Ghostscript during PS and PDF - generation to obtain font metric information, but that's no - longer the case. - -* Platforms supported - -In theory, PyChart works on any platform with Python. In practice, -I've run PyChart on Linux and Win2000. - -* Installation - -Become a root and do: - - # python setup.py install - -Or, you can set PYTHONPATH environment variable before you start -Python. For example (in bash): - -% PYTHONPATH=~/PyChart-1.33/pychart python mumbo.py - -* Documentation - -A detailed documentation is found in doc/pychart. - -* Examples - -All the *.py files in the demos/ directory can be run directly. For -example, - - setenv PYTHONPATH .. - python linetest.py >foo.eps - gs foo.eps - -or - - setenv PYTHONPATH .. - setenv PYCHART_OPTIONS="format=pdf" - python linetest.py >foo.pdf - acroread foo.pdf - -* About the author - -Yasushi Saito (ysaito@hpl.hp.com), a full-time researcher and -part-time hacker. This program is created mainly to serve my personal -needs to write pretty charts for research papers. As such, it is -updated only when I'm writing a paper, which happens about once every -half year or so. - -Anyway, if you have comments, requests, or (even better) -fixes/enhancements, feel free to email me. - |