Changes to this Manual

This revision of the manual has a number of objectives. It starts by describing a number of new features that have been introduced to the Plot Utility Program. Content that no longer reflected printing and plotting practice on current platforms has been revised replaced or removed. There has also been a general revision of the document to improve details of the layout to make the text easier to read.

Here is a summary of the changes:

• Added Driver Quick Reference to provide a quick reference to all the driver options.

• Added Changes to this Manual (this one) to summarize the changes to the manual.

• Driver Defaults:

  The PLOTDRIVERS file can now be used to change the default parameters of built-in drivers.

  The directory containing the Plot Utility Program has been added as an extra place to look for the PLOTDRIVERS file. This means that soft drivers are much easier to configure and use.

  The Screen and PNG drivers are set to the default PDMS colours in the standard PLOTDRIVERS file. The previous driver colours can be restored by commenting out these lines in the file.

• Screen Driver:

  The standard PLOTDRIVERS file now changes this driver to use PDMS colours by default.

  New option to set the cursor pen number.

  New ISO cursor style is available.

  Added the description of a desktop drag and drop shortcut.

• PostScript Driver:

  Added the LAYOUT D option to the driver to create PostScript files for conversion to PDF files easier.

  Changed the PTYPE examples to avoid ambiguity.

• PNG Driver:

  The standard PLOTDRIVERS file now changes this driver to use PDMS colours by default.

  The background colour can be changed by setting the colour of pen 0.

• Details of the PLOT.MF messages file directory search have been corrected.

• References to the Unix specific run_plot script have been removed.

• Details about serial line operation have been withdrawn.