icplot 0.0.13

Utilities for generating plots and graphics for technical reports.

icplot

This project is a utility library used at ICHEC for generating plots and graphics for use in technical documents.

Installation

The package is available on PyPI. For a minimal installation you can do:

pip install icplot

For full functionality, particularly for conversion of image formats imagemagick and cairo are required. On Mac you can install them with:

brew install imagemagick cairo

Features

The project has support for:

• Coverting image formats between pdf, svg and png
• Building pdf output from tex files, including tikz.

There is a command line interface included, mainly for testing, which may be heplful in getting to know available features.

To covert between image formats you can do:

icplot convert --source my_image.svg --target my_image.png

To render a Tex tikz image as pdf and png you can do:

icplot convert --source my_tikz.tex

Copyright

Copyright 2024 Irish Centre for High End Computing

The software in this repository can be used under the conditions of the GPLv3+ license, which is available for reading in the accompanying LICENSE file.