Gnuplot set background color of data label - gnuplot

I want to set the background of data labels to white! The considered plot is a data plot of the following data (gnuDC.dat):
4 1570.96 1571
8 770.63 771
12 530.33 530
16 385.13 385
24 261.87 262
48 137.71 138
96 81.42 81
The plot command reads:
plot "gnuDC.dat" using 1:2 title "DC: GNU Fortran 4.7.2 + Open MPI 1.6.3" w p ls 1, \
"gnuDC.dat" using 1:2:3 with labels center offset 2.,0.7 font "Helvetica,14" tc ls 4 notitle, \
"gnuDC.dat" using 1:3 notitle smooth csplines ls 14
Which gives me:
It looks ok but think one could read the lables better when the would have an white background. Is there an easy way to add the white background for all labels at once?
Here is the whole print file:
set terminal postscript eps size 14cm,10cm enhanced color \
font 'Helvetica,18' linewidth 2
set output 'test.eps'
# Line style for axes
set style line 80 lt 0
set style line 80 lt rgb "#808080"
# Line style for grid
set style line 81 lt 3 # dashed
set style line 81 lt rgb "#808080" lw 0.5 # grey
set grid back linestyle 81
set border 3 back linestyle 80
set xtics nomirror
set ytics nomirror
set style line 100 lc rgb '#0060ad' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1.5
set style line 200 lc rgb '#a2142f' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1.5
set pointintervalbox 0
set style line 1 lc rgb '#0072bd' lt 1 lw 1 pt 9 pi -10 ps 2
set style line 2 lc rgb '#77ac30' lt 1 lw 1 pt 7 pi -10 ps 2
set style line 3 lc rgb '#d95319' lt 1 lw 1 pt 1 pi -10 ps 2
set bmargin 4
set lmargin 5
set rmargin 4
unset title
set size 1,1
#set origin 0,0.27
set xlabel "number of cores, -"
set ylabel "Computational time, s"
set key top right
set key spacing 1.5
set key width -12
set yrange [0:1710]
plot "gnuDC.dat" using 1:2 title "DC: GNU Fortran 4.7.2 + Open MPI 1.6.3" w p ls 1, \
"gnuDC.dat" using 1:2:3 with labels center offset 2.,0.7 font "Helvetica,14" tc ls 4 notitle, \
"gnuDC.dat" using 1:3 notitle smooth csplines ls 14

With gnuplot version 5 there is a boxed option which does exactly this: give labels a background and, if you want, also a border. The style is controlled with set style textbox, e.g.
set style textbox opaque noborder
plot ... with labels boxed ...
Applied to your script (with some minor changes due to the changed dash handling since 5.0):
# Line style for axes
set style line 80 lt rgb "#808080"
# Line style for grid
set style line 81 dt 3 # dashed
set style line 81 lt rgb "#808080" lw 0.5 # grey
set grid back linestyle 81
set border 3 back linestyle 80
set tics nomirror
set linetype 1 lc rgb '#0072bd' pt 9 pi -10 ps 2 dt 3
set bmargin 4
set lmargin 5
set rmargin 4
set xlabel "number of cores, -"
set ylabel "Computational time, s"
set key top right
set key spacing 1.5
set key width -12
set yrange [0:1710]
set style textbox opaque noborder
plot "gnuDC.dat" using 1:2 title "DC: GNU Fortran 4.7.2 + Open MPI 1.6.3" w p lt 1, \
"gnuDC.dat" using 1:2:3 with labels boxed center offset 2.,0.7 font "Helvetica,10" tc ls 1 notitle, \
"gnuDC.dat" using 1:3 notitle smooth csplines lt 1
No, for versions 4.6 and earlier there isn't an easy way to achieve this.

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Shifting of axis title and sub-title in Gnuplot histogram

Mr data file is
# test.dat
# Sample No. Phenol Red Neutral Red Bromophenol Blue Bromocresol Green Mixed Indicator
1 80 69 223 222 130
2 89 62 321 267 160
3 92 67 248 276 147
Gnuplot code is
#
#
###
reset session
###
set terminal postscript eps enhanced colour font 'Times-Roman,12' size 6in,4in
set output "test.eps"
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
set style line 1 lt 4 lw 1 lc rgb "#4169E1"
set style line 2 lt 4 lw 1 lc rgb "#2E8B57"
set style line 3 lt 5 lw 1 lc rgb "#FF4500"
set style line 4 lt 4 lw 1 lc rgb "#FAD02C"
set style line 5 lt 4 lw 1 lc rgb "#FF0080"
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
set xtics out scale 1.5
set ytics out scale 1.5
set ytics nomirror
set yrange [0:350]
set key off
set tics font ", 16"
set xlabel "Sample No. " font ",16"
set ylabel "Moisture Content ({/Symbol \155}g of H_{2}O/g of melt)" font ",16"
set key samplen 2 spacing 1.65 font ",14" width -1.0
set key inside left horizontal
set style fill solid border
set style histogram clustered gap 1 title textcolor lt -1
# ----------------------------------------
set rmargin screen 0.9
set lmargin screen 0.1
set bmargin screen 0.4
# ----------------------------------------
set style data histogram
plot \
newhistogram "Direct titration", \
'test.dat' using 2:xtic(1) ls 4 axes x1y1 title "Phenol Red", \
'' u 3 ls 5 axes x1y1 title "Neutral Red", \
newhistogram "Back-titration", \
'test.dat.dat' using 4:xtic(1) ls 1 axes x1y1 title "Bromophenol Blue", \
'' u 5 ls 2 axes x1y1 title "Bromocresol Green", \
'' u 6 ls 3 axes x1y1 title "Mixed Indicator"
# ----------------------------------------
##
Script works fine. I would like to provide more spacing between the tick labels (1,2,3) and the sub-title (Direct titration and Back-titration) as well as spacing between the sub-titles and axis title. How can it be done?
set xlabel offset 0, -1 will shift both the subtitles and the axis title downward by one character height.
set xlabel "\nTEXT" will create a two-line axis label and place TEXT on the second line.
Modifying your xlabel command to be
set xlabel "\nSample No. " font ",16" offset 0,-1
will make both those changes.

How to make "filledcurves" change color when two or more meet? (GNUPlot)

I have created a graph that uses lines for the average of my data and filledcurves for the error (average-error, average+error). My problem is that the last filledcurves that is plotted, covers all other fills, even though I have set its transparency. I want to change this so that when two or more filledcurves meet the color is changed and thus the errors are clearly shown for all lines.
My script is:
set datafile separator whitespace
set style line 1 lc rgb '#aa5500' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1
set style line 2 lc rgb '#55aaff' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1
set style line 3 lc rgb '#aa557f' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1
set style line 4 lc rgb '#55007f' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1
set style line 5 lc rgb '#005500' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1
set style line 6 lc rgb '#0055ff' lt 1 lw 2 pt 7 ps 1
set tics nomirror
set tics front
set style line 12 lc rgb '#808080' lt 0 lw 1
set grid front ls 12
set output 'network_utilization_servers_3_2.png'
set terminal png size 1000,800
set style fill transparent solid 0.25
set style fill noborder
set xrange[0:77]
set yrange[0:1500]
set xlabel "Time (seconds)" font ",12"
set ylabel "Incoming Traffic (KB/s)" font ",12"
set title "Network Utilization in the Servers" font "Helvetica,16"
set key box title "Server" width 10
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for [i=0:|Group|-1] $Data3 u ($2-6):3:4 index i w lines ti sprintf("%g",Group[i+1]) ls i+1
and my pragh:
My goal is something like this:
Is there a way to achieve this?

GNUPLOT: First data row not shown in barchar [duplicate]

Am using gnuplot 5.0. with the following as pereamble to each script:
set terminal epslatex 8 color standalone colortext
The issue is that gnuplot is skipping the first row. To my knowledge 4.6 version addressed a similar issue.
Any idea on the problem please?
Example of data file points.dat
4 4
4 -4
-4 4
-4 -4
The first line (4, 4) is skipped. So instead of four points, only three are displayed by gnuplot. Herewith the command am using
#!/bin/bash
set terminal epslatex 8 color standalone colortext
set output outputFileName
set size .55,.55
set pointsize 3.0
##############
# Line styles
##############
set linestyle 1 lt 5 lw 1 #
set linestyle 2 lt 2 lw 1.5
set linestyle 3 lt 6 lw 1 #
set linestyle 4 lt 3 lw 1
set linestyle 5 lt 2 lw 2 #
set linestyle 6 lt 1 lw 2
##################
# Titles
##################
set title 'Image'
set xlabel '$x$' offset 0,0.5
set ylabel '$y$' offset 2,0
set macros
filename_init = sprintf("%s/image_init.dat",dataFileDirectory)
set key autotitle columnhead
set key horiz
set multiplot
plot
filename_init u 1:2 with points lt 0 pt 1 lw 5 lc rgb "magenta" notitle 'initial'
On trick to bypass the issue is to duplicate the first row. Bu this is not practical.
With set key autotitle columnheader gnuplot uses the entries in the first row as key entries, even though for the plot you have specified notitle.
To demonstrate this, consider the following script, using the four data points in points.dat, which you posted:
set terminal pngcairo
set output 'foobar.png'
set offsets 1,1,1,1
set key autotitle columnhead
filename_init = 'points.dat'
set multiplot layout 1,2
plot filename_init u 1:2 with points lt 0 pt 1 lw 5 lc rgb "magenta"
set key noautotitle
plot filename_init u 1:2 with points lt 0 pt 1 lw 5 lc rgb "magenta" title 'initial'
unset multiplot
The result is
So, just remove the line set key autotitle columnhead from your script, and use plot ... title 'initial'. That gives you the expected result.

gnuplot: first row of data skipped

Am using gnuplot 5.0. with the following as pereamble to each script:
set terminal epslatex 8 color standalone colortext
The issue is that gnuplot is skipping the first row. To my knowledge 4.6 version addressed a similar issue.
Any idea on the problem please?
Example of data file points.dat
4 4
4 -4
-4 4
-4 -4
The first line (4, 4) is skipped. So instead of four points, only three are displayed by gnuplot. Herewith the command am using
#!/bin/bash
set terminal epslatex 8 color standalone colortext
set output outputFileName
set size .55,.55
set pointsize 3.0
##############
# Line styles
##############
set linestyle 1 lt 5 lw 1 #
set linestyle 2 lt 2 lw 1.5
set linestyle 3 lt 6 lw 1 #
set linestyle 4 lt 3 lw 1
set linestyle 5 lt 2 lw 2 #
set linestyle 6 lt 1 lw 2
##################
# Titles
##################
set title 'Image'
set xlabel '$x$' offset 0,0.5
set ylabel '$y$' offset 2,0
set macros
filename_init = sprintf("%s/image_init.dat",dataFileDirectory)
set key autotitle columnhead
set key horiz
set multiplot
plot
filename_init u 1:2 with points lt 0 pt 1 lw 5 lc rgb "magenta" notitle 'initial'
On trick to bypass the issue is to duplicate the first row. Bu this is not practical.
With set key autotitle columnheader gnuplot uses the entries in the first row as key entries, even though for the plot you have specified notitle.
To demonstrate this, consider the following script, using the four data points in points.dat, which you posted:
set terminal pngcairo
set output 'foobar.png'
set offsets 1,1,1,1
set key autotitle columnhead
filename_init = 'points.dat'
set multiplot layout 1,2
plot filename_init u 1:2 with points lt 0 pt 1 lw 5 lc rgb "magenta"
set key noautotitle
plot filename_init u 1:2 with points lt 0 pt 1 lw 5 lc rgb "magenta" title 'initial'
unset multiplot
The result is
So, just remove the line set key autotitle columnhead from your script, and use plot ... title 'initial'. That gives you the expected result.

Thicker lines in the legend of gnuplot

I'm plotting some data curves with gnuplot, and they look like this:
However, the line samples in the legend are too thin. When you have more curves, it becomes hard to distinguish the colors. You can increase the thickness of the curves using "linewidth", e.g., by adding "lw 3" to the plot command, and you'd get this:
However, this increases the thickness everywhere. Is it possible to make the lines thick in the legend only? I know it can be done "the other way", by postprocessing on the output .png file. But is there a direct approach, using some gnuplot setting/wizardry?
Unfortunately, I don't know a way to control the thickness of the lines in the key, since they correspond to the lines being drawn. You can see what you can change by typing help set key in gnuplot.
Using multiplot, you can draw the plot lines first without the key, then draw the key again for 'ghost lines'. Here is a code sample which would do that:
set terminal png color size 800,600
set output 'plot.png'
set multiplot
unset key
plot '../batteries/9v/carrefour.txt' w lp, \
'../batteries/9v/philips.txt' w lp, \
'../batteries/9v/sony.txt' w lp
set key; unset tics; unset border; unset xlabel; unset ylabel
plot [][0:1] 2 title 'Carrefour' lw 4, \
2 title 'Philips' lw 4, \
2 title 'Sony' lw 4
In the second plot command, the function 2 (a constant) is being plotted with a y range of 0 to 1, so it doesn't show up.
I ran across this post and it gave me a critical idea.
The provided solution does not work in multiplot mode, since the second plot command will trigger the second plot, which is most likely not desired.
as a workaround one can set the original data as "notitle", then plot data outside of range with the same linetype and color in different thickness with the desired title. I'll just leave my current example here. It also includes linestyles that i have declared. So i just use the same linestyle (ls) to get the same color but change the thickness on the second line.
# for pngs
set terminal pngcairo size 1600,600 font ',18' enhanced
set output "pic_multi_kenngr_ana.png
set style line 2 lc rgb '#0ce90b' lt 1 lw 1.5 # --- green
set style line 3 lc rgb '#09e0b3' lt 1 lw 1.5 # .
set style line 4 lc rgb '#065fd8' lt 1 lw 1.5 # .
set style line 5 lc rgb '#4e04cf' lt 1 lw 1.5 # .
set style line 6 lc rgb '#c702a9' lt 1 lw 1.5 # .
set style line 7 lc rgb '#bf000a' lt 1 lw 1.5 # --- red
set multiplot layout 1,2
set xtics rotate
set tmargin 5
set xtics 12
set grid xtics
# set axis labels
set ylabel 'T [K]'
set xlabel 'Zeit [h]'
# select range
set xrange [0:48]
set yrange [290.15:306.15]
set title "(a) Bodentemperatur"
set key top right Right
plot 'par_crank_hom01lvls.04.dat' u 1:3 with lines ls 7 notitle,\
'par_crank_str01lvls.16.dat' u 1:3 with lines ls 2 notitle,\
500 t 'z = 4 cm' ls 7 lw 4,\
500 t 'z = 16 cm' ls 2 lw 4
################################################
set title "(b) Bodenwärmestrom an der Oberfläche"
set ylabel 'G [W m^{-2}]'
set yrange[-110:110]
unset key
plot 'par_crank_str01_ghf.dat' u 1:3 with lines
unset multiplot
I hope this will help someone
An even more simple work-around (imho) is to define the colours explicitly and plot each line twice, once with high lw for the key and also with the title to appear in the key, but adding "every ::0::0" which effectively ends up in plotting nothing, and once the normal way. See the following code snippet:
plot data u 0:1 w l linecolor rgb #1b9e77 lw 2 t "",\
data every ::0::0 u 0:1 w l linecolor rgb #1b9e77 lw 4 t "Title"
To expand on the NaN comment by #Svalorzen, the following will graph two lines of width 1 from some datafile.txt with no titles and create matching blank lines with the specified titles and width 5 for the key only:
plot [][]\
NaN title "Title1" w line lt 1 lc 1 lw 5,\
NaN title "Title2" w line lt 1 lc 2 lw 5,\
"datafile.txt" using 1:2 title "" w line lt 1 lc 1 lw 1,\
"datafile.txt" using 1:3 title "" w line lt 1 lc 2 lw 1
I find an answer for this:
Set key linewidth
in your case, must be:
plot '../batteries/9v/carrefour.txt' w l lw 1 linetype 1 notitle, 0/0 linetype 1 linewidth 5 title 'Carrefour'
rep '../batteries/9v/philips.txt' w l lw 1 linetype 2 notitle, 0/0 linetype 2 linewidth 5 title 'Philips'
rep '../batteries/9v/sony.txt' w l lw 1, linetype 3 notitle, 0/0 linetype 3 linewidth 5 title 'Sony'
Try something like:
plot # ... \
keyentry w l lw 1 lc 2 t "Title" # ...
And remove the old keys.

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