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-grace is an plotting tool for workstations or X-terminals using X. A few of
-its features are:
+grace is an plotting tool for workstations or X-terminals using X and the
+successor of xmgr. A few of its features are:
* User defined scaling, tick marks, labels, symbols, line styles, colors.
* Batch mode for unattended plotting.
@@ -11,15 +11,3 @@ its features are:
While grace has a convenient point-and-click interface, most parameter settings
and operations are available through a command line interface (found in
Data/Commands).
-
-grace is the successor of the well known xmgr plotting tool!
-
-Known PROBLEMS:
-
- - GD-1.3 library of Thomas Boutell:
- * patterned fills of ellipses make Grace crash
- * complex polygons are filled incorrectly sometimes
-
- - PDFlib-0.6 library of Thomas Merz
- * patterned fills are not implemented
- * bitmapped text strings are not transparent