B. Users Manual in the form of a PostScript document.
C. APIClient application source code: a demo of Espionage's API
2. Installation notes.
* About the API: This Archive version includes APIClient application and source code. This is an implemented demonstration of all the methods from Espionage's API client library. With only a demo license, the API is disabled. But you can still take a look at the source code for the client if you wish.
* This program can be made fully functional with a valid license obtained from LogicStream.
* Espionage.app unpacks to 7.8 MB MAB. The manual upacks to about 3 MB.
LOGICSTREAM ANNOUNCES NEW DATA-VISUALIZATION APPLICATION FOR NEXTSTEP:
ESPIONAGE: THE ART OF PLOTTING
SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 15, 1994 - LogicStream, a leading provider of data visualization solutions and services for the NeXT/Unix community, today released Espionage: The Art of Plotting. The most powerful and complete charting and graphing application designed and built for NEXTSTEP. Espionage's unique features make it a one-of-a-kind tool in the scientific, academic, and corporate UNIX arenas.
Espionage is a full-featured plotting and graphical analysis tool for computers running NEXTSTEP. Written exclusively for NEXTSTEP, Espionage specializes in the production of publication quality graphic representation of data. Espionage gives users very detailed GUI control over all the graphical attributes of a plot, and then allows them to leverage that effort through the use of Plot Format and Document Template tools. A complete application programmer's interface (API) is included.
"We designed Espionage for people who work with numbers daily - engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, and finance professionals - and need to present them graphically" said Thomas Masino, founder of LogicStream. Espionage delivers an elegant and powerful solution to data visualization. Yet new users will be surprised at the ease with which they get up and running - it's plug-and-play plotting. Espionage includes a tutorial for getting started quickly, and an on-line help to guide users through its more advanced features."
SOME DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
* Plot Formats can be saved, applied to other plots, or used as default
* Single-step repeat analysis of a collection of plots via Document Templates
* Quick change of plot type and/or underlying data
* Automatic Updating of plots after changing data values in the data table
* Completely flexible and intuitive plot layout controls
* Plot Formats operate independently of plot type
* Direct RTF editing of plot title and axis labels
* Multiple plots per page, and multiple pages per plot canvas
* Zoom, Grid and Alignment tools
* Drawing tools including arrows and text labels
* Curve Fitting (linear and polynomial)
* Model Builder to generates data from mathematical expressions
* Two and three graphical dimensions for display (uses 3DKit for 3D plots).
ESPIONAGE IS A COMPLETE NEXTSTEP APPLICATION.
* Live Links to spreadsheet programs
* Live Links to imported data files
* Drag and Drop data files onto Espionage's spreadsheet-like Data Table
* Drag and Drop images/text onto the Plotting Canvas
* Drag out finished plots into Mail, etc., or link them to other applications
* Rich importing and exporting capabilities
* Publication quality output every time
* Drive Espionage via the API as a visible application or as a remote server
* User Loadable Plot Modules for an ever growing plot type library
* Online Help
LOGICSTREAM'S N-DIMENSIONAL PLOTTING ENGINE
Espionage is the first stand-alone application to incorporate LogicStream's N-Dimensional Plotting Engine (TM). Use of the Plotting Engine along with User-Loadable Plot Modules, mean that the library of plot types will grow with customer demand and creativity. The plotting engine does most of the work, so adding a new plot type is usually a simple process. The N-Dimensional Plotting Engine puts no restrictions on the dimensionality of the data representation. Espionage currently ships with plot types of two to five data dimensions.
Available for Intel and NeXT hardware. (HP version forthcoming)
Contact LogicStream to place an order. 30-day money back guarantee. Major credit cards and purchase orders accepted.
Restricted functionality demo copies available upon request. Demo version can be enabled with purchase of a license key. Floating license for multi-user sites.
Privately held LogicStream has been providing data-visualization solutions to the NeXT/UNIX community since 1991. Through headquarters in San Francisco, LogicStream sells Espionage: The Art of Plotting to major scientific institutions, universities, and corporations throughout the world. LogicStream also operates a European sales office in Zaragoza, Spain (011 (34) 76 34 42 13 fax, +011 (34) 76 31 23 66 voice).
"Espionage", and "Espionage:The Art of Plotting" are trademarks of LogicStream. "NEXTSTEP" is a trademark of NeXT Computer Inc.
