A.4 Graphics Windows

TOPCAT has a number of windows for performing data visualisation of various kinds. These share various characteristics which are described in the first subsection below; the specific windows themselves are described in the subsequent subsections.

These visualisation windows are fairly sophisticated, and the plots can exported to GIF or EPS files for later presentation (see Appendix A.4.1.4). However, at least at present, TOPCAT does not claim to be a full end-to-end system for generating publication quality graphics, and hence lacks facilities for detailed configuration of axis labelling, legend display, font control, data annotation and so on. You may well find that you can use it to generate publication quality graphics, but if you need features which are not currently provided you may find it best to use TOPCAT to investigate your data and decide exactly what data you want to present, and then export the data in a form which can be used by a more output-oriented package.