Veusz

This release includes an interactive tutorial. The data plotting widget can now color data points according to another dataset. The CSV import is much improved, allowing European numerical formats and different date formats. Datasets can now be copy, pasted, or imported from the clipboard. The size of SVG exported files has been greatly reduced. The axis widget can have its range interactively changed, and its minimum and maximum can be specified in date-time format. In addition, there have been several other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Separate threads are now used for rendering plots. Output is updated as soon as the document is modified, improving responsiveness. A ternary plot widget has been added. Sizes of pages can be modified separately. Binary, NPY, and NPZ data formats are supported. Tick labels can be rotated by 45 degree intervals. Points can be labelled in non-orthogonal plots. Further minor improvements and bug fixes were made.

Multiple widgets can now be selected in Veusz, so that their properties can be changed together. A context menu has been added for files in the dataset browser to unlink or delete all the data belonging to that file. The data edit dialog box now uses the dataset browser widget. A date/time data type is now included, and these values can easily be edited in the data edit dialog box. There have also been some minor LaTeX support improvements, and a number of bugs have been fixed.

Veusz now includes a point picker for identifying points on graphs. The program also has a new dataset browsing dock window, which allows for dataset editing and filtering. When fitting data, Veusz can now use PyMinuit for better minimization. A self test program is now provided to check output. The console history is more intelligent. LaTeX superscripts and subscripts appear at the same horizontal position and \\ works in key text. Veusz can now switch between native and US formatting and program locales. Blanks can now be ignored in CSV files. There have also been a number of bug fixes.

This release includes two new plotting widgets, a box plot for plotting sample distributions and a polar graph. The data editing dialog box is much easier to use to create new datasets. There have been enhancements to the CSV reader. QDP files can also now be imported. Dates and times can also be written in local formats in data files. Datasets can be reloaded automatically at intervals. This release also includes several minor feature enhancements and a number of bugfixes, including an option to run silently without opening a window.