Palynoplot
Plotting Palynological Distributions
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Drs. James White and Chris Jessop have been invited to present a workshop about Palynoplot at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the AASP-The Palynological Society 27-30 September, 2009 in Kingsport, Tennessee |
Palynoplot is a tool designed to aid the understanding of distributions of palynomorphs recorded in literature (see White and Jessop, 2002). Palynoplot was written to use the output of Palynodata database, but will accept (with a suitable pre-processor) any user specified input file.
The Palynoplot program is available for sale. The price is $400 Canadian, and includes a CD containing the program, help files and documentation, and an installer for MS-windows.
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How To Purchase Palynoplot:
You have two choicesSystem Requirements:
Operating System:- Windows 2000, XP, Vista
or any that will run Perl and GNUplot (but you will need to run Palynodata separately)
- 300 MB for required software (Palynodata, GNUplot, Perl)
2 MB for Palynoplot
a few MB for plots and data files
Software Requirements:
All the required software is freely available from the appropriate web sites.- Palynodata
- This is available from the Geological Survey of Canada as a free download.
- GNUplot
- Any recent version will do. It is free from the Gnuplot home page. If you are running windows you will want, for example gp424win32.zip or whatever version is most recent.
- Perl with tk
- Palynoplot was developed using ActiveState's ActivePerl version more recent than 5.8.0 should work. Palynoplot has been tested using 5.8.7 and 5.8.8
