Release Notes
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Release date - 31 Jan 2003

Release Identification:
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This contains the release for the standalone version 1.0 of VOPlot. 

The VOPlot is a standalone application for plotting different astronomical 
graphs using data stored in VOTable format. 

It has been developed as a part of the Virtual Observatory - India 
initiative by Persistent Systems Private Limited (PSPL)
and the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), 
in collaboration with Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS),
and with support from
the EC AVO project. The VO-I project is supported by the Ministry of 
Information and Communication Technology of the Governement of India.

VOPlot uses Ptplot 5.2, a 2D data plotter and histogram tool implemented in Java. Ptplot has been developed at EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley. 

VOPlot is tested successfully on various platforms such as Win2000, WinNT & Linux.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. 
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE RIGHTHOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR 
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, 
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Product Support Information/Feedback address:
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For feedback contact voindia@vo.iucaa.ernet.in.

System Requirements:
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	Java Runtime Environment (1.3.1 or later) required.

In this release:
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	- Features
	  * Allows plotting of numeric fields from a VOTable.
	  * Support for various plot styles - scatter plots, line plots, histograms.
	  * Support for automatic/manual labeling of axis and tick marks.
	  * Supports zooming.
	  * Support for transformation on columns.
	  * Support for overlaying of plots and histograms.
	  * Support for printing of the plot.
	  * Support for statistical functions.
	  * Support for filtering data.  
	  * Support for saving the plot as EPS file.

	- Limitations
	  * Plots data only from a single catalogue.