Plotting backends (All platforms)

For plotting with McStas, different support packages can be used:

• PGPLOT/PDL/pgperl (Unix only) - Binary builds of the packages exist for various Linux distributions (for instance Debian comes with prebuilt versions). Prebuilt versions also exist for some commercial Unix'es. Refer to distributor/vendor for documentation. The packages can also be built from source using some (in many cases much) effort. See the PGPLOT documentation for further details.
• Matlab (Some Unix/Win32) - refer to http://www.mathworks.com. Matlab licenses are rather costly, but discount programmes for university and research departments exist.
• Scilab (Unix/Win32/Mac...) - a free 'Matlab-like' package, available from http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/. McStas also requires the Plotlib library from
  http://www.dma.utc.fr/$\sim$mottelet/myplot.html.