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mecej4 · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1899

Many Windows ports of Unix packages have reduced functionality and reduced support.

If you do not already use Cmake, GCC and Cygwin, I suggest that you not try (unless you are consumed by the urge to try). Even the compressed tar ball of the Plplot sources is about 16 Mbytes!

I can provide an experimental, untested DLL of Plplot 5.3.1 that you can use with FTN95 to build and run some of the Plplot Fortran examples . Some examples will not work without modification because, unlike with Gfortran, I/O to an unopened file in FTN95 will cause an error instead of automatically opening files named FORTnn for unit #nn.

mecej4 · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1899

Download the zipped DLL from https://www.dropbox.com/s/cu2zpjffai99o7j/plpltSal.zip?dl=0 .

Unzip; to build the PLPLOT examples, e.g., x01f.f, do

mecej4 · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1899

After posting the DLL, I tried running some of the examples included in the current distribution. Not a single one worked, because in the new versions they have added a dependency on the ISO_FORTRAN_ENV module, which we do not (yet) have in FTN95.

I have collected those of the examples from the old distribution that work (one or two needed modification to avoid writing to unit 0 without a prior OPEN). The 17 examples, in a Zip, are at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7mf6bd0iyim9eix/plpEx.zip?dl=0 .

Note that the DLL is only for 32-bit FTN95. It is probably premature to consider building a 64-bit DLL for 64-bit FTN95.

DanRRight · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:26 am Post subject:

Mecej4, OK, i compiled and tried all 4 options these examples offer, my computer shows no graphs from any of them. How to see these plots?

mecej4 · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1899

You will see graphics on-screen only if you choose option-1, "win3". The next two produce B/W and color Postscript files, for which you will need to obtain a viewer such as Ghostview, or a PS-PDF converter. Option-4 (Null device), I believe, is intended for use in debugging Plplot programs during development.

If you chose option-1 and did not see graphics, you should have seen some error message. Do you have the two PLPLOT font files, plstnd5.fnt and plxtnd5.fnt? If not, download the plpEx.zip file again, I have added the font files to the example Fortran files.

DanRRight · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:47 am Post subject:

Thanks, now works ok. No modern fonts?

mecej4 · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1899

Those two are the only pre-built font files in the current distribution, too. There are some C files in a subdirectory called 'fonts', so I suppose that one could construct other font files, but I don't know. You can see if they tell you how to do that in their Wiki.

mecej4 · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1899

A couple of points to place things in perspective.

When Unicode was being developed, a 9600 baud printer was standard. If the printer did not have Unicode in its store, the computer had to download the Unicode font(s) to the printer.

To download a 22 MB font file at 9600 baud would take over six hours. Most people might not expect to wait that long to print a Unicode page containing a couple of kilobytes, and think instead that the printer or the computer had crashed.

DanRRight · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:46 pm Post subject:

The guys who support it should rebuild all examples which now look obsolete. There are very good Example 8 (click right mouse there) and 11, but the whole "wrap" is damaging any wishes for acceptance. I am surprised things look like frozen in ancient ages. For the authors to add good modern look is a couple days work, for us it could be close to impossible, so rarely which users want to experiment

DanRRight · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:03 am Post subject:

Good example of what I mean is to open any high profile scientific or financial journal and compare. Nature, Science, Physical Review...As usual, the beauty is skin deep (color and positions of elements) but it defines way too much in our lives. It is literally forbidden to ignore that. And it often costs nothing to involve professionals into improvement of visual design. Many universities teach students on real products and professors will gladly help not taking a penny

DanRRight · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 4:02 am Post subject:

Don't believe me? Here is what have been done for our international conference design by the fellow professors with their students for example. Just look how great are all of these works which surrounded all participants in the conference hall, posters halls, coffee places and launch rooms. Huge convention centers with the largest gatherings can not do any better. Cost for us? Zero. This is what all patriots of their universities and local businesses do. Look at these students' poster competition and tell me that you are not impressed.

http://icxrl2014.colostate.edu/DisplayPosters.pdf

Time to do a refresh here too.