Introduction
PowderPlot is a stand alone Java program for plotting powder patterns output by RIETAN-FP (*.itx/*.pat). The latest version of PowderPlot is also included in the distribution files of VESTA.Features
PowderPlot can display *.pat files and *.int files.You can zoom patterns by dragging the plot area where you want to see. Double click to show whole pattern. On "move" mode, you can drag graph area.
Esc: cancel mouse drag
-: zoom out
+: zoom in
→(right): show low two theta area (move to right)
←(left): show high two theta area (move to left)
↑(up): show downward (move up)
↓(down): show upward (move down)
Shift + →(right): zoom in along two theta axis
Shift + ←(left): zoom out along two theta axis
Shift + ↑(up): zoom in along intensity axis
Shift + ↓(down): zoom out along intensity axis
Download

- PowderPlot.zip (ver. 0.3.5, uploaded on Mar 14 2012, 1.21MB)
No intallation procedure is required. Once you download and extract the archive, execute PowderPlot.exe. You can drag & drop *.pat files on plot window, or register PowderPlot.exe as a default *.pat file viewer.

- PowderPlot.dmg (ver. 0.3.5, uploaded on Mar 11 2012, 1.40MB)

- PowderPlot-i686.tar.bz2 (ver. 0.3.5, uploaded on Mar 11 2012, 1.06MB)
- PowderPlot-x86_64.tar.bz2 (ver. 0.3.5, uploaded on Mar 11 2012, 1.15MB)
Gtk+ > 2.10 and Java > 1.4.1 are required.
To execute the program, type the following command in the terminal window.
java -jar PowderPlot.jarIf Java libraries provided with PowderPlot could not loaded and the program fails to start, set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH before the java command.LD_LIBRARY_PATH="where PowderPlot.jar is placed" java -jar PowderPlot.jarYou can also Drag and Drop a *.pat file in PowderPlot window.
Change Log
- May 18th 2008
Embeded a manifest file into the jar archive.
Updated the swt library. - Nov. 24th 2004
Ver. 0.3.3: Update swt library to 3.0.1.
Added binary for Mac OSX. - Jun. 2th 2004
Ver. 0.3.2: Show 2theta value and intencity of mouse position in status bar. - Apr. 6th 2004
Ver. 0.3.1: General bug fix. - Apr. 5th 2004
Ver. 0.3: Added tool tip for reflection indexes. - Apr. 1th 2004
Enabled to show RIETAN-2000's simulation result and *.int file in "GENERAL" format. - Mar. 20th 2004
Released RPM file for Linux. - Feb. 28th 2004
First release of PowderPlot.