Helping you with gnuplot
Immediate help is available inside gnuplot via the "help" command. The complete contents of the user manual for version 6 are available on the gnuplot home page as a PDF document (English and 日本語).The gnuplot project site on SourceForge has several associated mailing lists that are mostly oriented towards developers but also see some general discussion and question answering.
- Stack Overflow gnuplot questions
- Discussion forum (archival copy only) Google Groups
- mailing lists https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/mailman/
- Support Requests on gnuplot's project site. Limited developer time available to monitor this; please try community forums first.
The developers' mailing is at gnuplot-beta@lists.sourceforge.net is suitable for issues related to building and developing gnuplot.
Books
Several books on gnuplot are available.
- See the Books page on this site.
Articles on the web
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LWN Articles by Lee Phillips:
- Plotting tools for Linux: gnuplot
- What's new in gnuplot 5.2
- New features in gnuplot 5.4
- Voxel plotting with gnuplot 5.4
- Gnuplot 6 comes with pie
- Plotting the spirograph equations by Víctor Luaña
Localized learning pages about gnuplot
Gnuplot pages in Chinese:- Gnuplot introduction (pdf document) by Yong Wang
- Série článků o gnuplotu na rootu, autor Petr Pinkas
- Série článků o gnuplotu na linuxsoftu, autor Vladimír Jarý
- Tutoriál ke gnuplotu 3.5, autor Petr Michálek
- Gnuplot, traceur et grapheur: tutorial de gnuplot 3.7.1; copie de l'introduction aussi dans Le livre de Freeduc-cd
- Traductions de la documentation de gnuplot 3.7.1: ici, et ici
- Présentation de Gnuplot: introduction courte
- Tuteur pour le logiciel gnuplot: une bonne introduction
- Gnuplot, LYX et LATEX: une bonne introduction
- Du bon usage de gnuplot: une large introduction (version 3.6)
- Introduction au logiciel graphique gnuplot: une large introduction, exemples
- Traduction partiale du manuel: Pas au courant, mais avec quelques examples utiles.
- Gnuplot Kurzanleitung by Axel Bussmann
- Datenvisualisierung mit gnuplot Der Klassiker von Gerhard Fülber in Linux Magazin 1997
- Einführung in gnuplot by Frank Elsner
- Gnuplot in einer Nußschale by Matthias Schröter
- Kurzeinführung in die Arbeit mit gnuplot Skript K. Könnecke, NAM
- Grundkurs Gnuplot by Dr. David Völker (2002)
- Ein Gnuplot-Editor, author Sascha Reinhardt (2004). For online web plotting.
- gnuplot: Einführung in die grafische Darstellung von Funktionen und Daten by Lars Hoegen (2005). Series of RRZN-Handbuches (paper handbooks, available for a low price).
- Gnuplot book and gnuplot tips and scripts by I Wayan Warmada
- Tutorial by Giuseppe Ciaburro
- Translation of the Gnuplot 5.4 User Manual by Alice Lopoeta
- Introduction to gnuplot and Not so Frequently Asked Questions and Solutions: in Japanese by Dr. T. Kawano
- Examples of pm3d pictures and scripts by Dr. Namio Matsuda
- Gnuplot primer by Dr. Naoki Oshiro
- First Step to gnuplot by Dr. Osamu Ogurisu
- gnuplot FAQ for Brazilian users
- Aplicativo gnuplot: Comandos básicos, tutorial e exemplos de aplição by prof. Mauricio Galo
- Série VŠ učebnic FEI TU Košice: gnuplot, autor Jozef Doboš
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Version: October 2025