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diff --git a/academic/veusz/README b/academic/veusz/README index 3656879576..511f7c399f 100644 --- a/academic/veusz/README +++ b/academic/veusz/README @@ -1,18 +1,16 @@ Veusz - A Scientific Plotting Package -Veusz is a GUI scientific plotting and graphing package. It is designed -to produce publication-ready Postscript or PDF output. SVG, EMF and -bitmap export formats are also supported. +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. -The program runs under Unix/Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, and binaries -are provided. Data can be read from text, CSV, HDF5 or FITS files. In -addition, you can also enter, manipulate or examine data from within -the application. In Veusz plots are created by building up plotting -widgets with a consistent object-based interface. The program also -provides a command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to -its plotting facilities. It can also act as a Python plotting module. -Veusz is written in Python. Its user interface uses PyQt and Numpy is -used to manipulate data. +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. -The hdf5 library is an optional dependency (needed only if you want to -use HDF5 files). +See the complete release notes for Veusz 2.0 at +https://veusz.github.io/releasenotes/2.0.txt + +Sphinx is an optional dependency (used to rebuild the manual). |