Feature Summary
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## Feature Summary

### Cross Platform

PLplot is currently known to work on the following platforms:

- Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unices

- MSVC IDE on the Microsoft version of Windows (Windows 2000 and later)

- Cygwin on the Microsoft version of Windows

- MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the Microsoft version of Windows

For each of the above platforms, PLplot can be configured, built, and installed from source, and for the Linux and Mac OS X platforms third-party binary packages for PLplot are available.

### Language Bindings

The language bindings of the C PLplot library are currently the following:

- Ada

- C++

- D

- Fortran

- Java

- Lisp

- Lua

- OCaml

- Octave

- Perl/PDL

- Python

- Tcl/Tk

### Output File Formats

PLplot device drivers support the following plotting file formats:

- CGM

- GIF

- JPEG

- PBM

- PDF

- PNG

- PostScript

- SVG

- Xfig

### Interactive Platforms

PLplot device drivers support the following platforms that are suitable for interactive plotting:

- GDI

- GTK+

- PyQt

- Qt

- Tcl/Tk

- wxWidgets

- X

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