Hi, I started to implement a module for drawing eucliean geometry graphs, as discussed in (perl for graphing Euclidean geometry), made quite some progress over the weekend. So far I've been doing all drawing in GD, but I noticed the antialiasing problem, i.e., the edges are not smooth even after I turned on antialiasing. Many others recommended using gnuplot for drawing. Did any of you do some comparison betwee GD and gnuplot? I liked GD since it seems to have a better interface via perl (most gnuplot examples I saw use the backtick to call gnuplot.) Does gnuplot provide better quality graphs? or have other advantages?

While I'm at it, I'll throw in SVG, which is more than enough for my type of drawing. Any comments here?

Thanks.

In reply to GD vs. gnuplot by johnnywang

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