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<h1 id="title">Samurai Graph</h1>
<h2 id="subtitle">A highly functional and user-friendly graph plotter</h2>
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<h3>About Samurai Graph</h3>

<p>Samurai Graph is a highly functional and user-friendly graph plotter.
It can plot a graphs from the scalar to vector type 2-dimensional data.
See <a href="features.html.en">features</a> 
for an extensive overview, take a look at the
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Samurai Graph is an open source development project, released under the 
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License</a> (LGPL).</p>

<p>Samurai Graph is Java-based and platform-independent application.
It runs on most major operating systems including MS-Windows, Linux,
MacOS X, FreeBSD.</p>

<h3>Samurai Graph 2.0.0 released</h3>
<p>Samurai graph 2.0.0 has been released. (23th November 2010.)</p>
<p>The main new features in 2.0.0 are:</p>
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  <li>Added the netCDF files as the input file format.</li>
  <li>Added the netCDF file to the file format of data set.</li>
  <li>Enabled to switch the orientation of the bar graph and error bars between horizontal and vertical.</li>
  <li>Enabled to shift the location of the line graph and the bar graph.</li>
  <li>Enabled to switch whether to move or not the symbols such as the shape objects as axis range is changed.</li>
  <li>Enabled to change the angle of the tick labels and the scale numbers.</li>
  <li>Added functions to paint the background of the shape objects in a simple color, a pattern or gradation with transparency.</li>
  <li>Added pseudo-color map to the graph type.</li>
  <li>Revised the wizard dialogs for input data.</li>
  <li>Added functions to operate the application from command-line input.</li>
  <li>Improved scalar-type XY data significantly.</li>
  <li>Revised commands of the paper size in the menu bar.</li>
  <li>Added commands to change the front-back order of the objects.</li>
  <li>Added commands to change the up-down order of the legend.</li>
  <li>Fixed to show error bars above and below each data point ignoring the sign of error values.</li>
  <li>Enabled to input the file name by drag-and-drop onto the text field on a dialog.</li>
  <li>Enabled to zoom in or out the graph by holding down the control key and scrolling the mouse wheel.</li>
  <li>Improved the grid lines for log-scaled axes.</li>
  <li>Fixed cumulative minor bugs.</li>
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