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

Plotting the spirograph equations by Víctor Luaña

Localized learning pages about gnuplot

Gnuplot pages in Chinese:

Gnuplot introduction (pdf document) by Yong Wang

Gnuplot pages in Czech:

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 pages in French:

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 pages in German:

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 pages in Indonesian:

Gnuplot book and gnuplot tips and scripts by I Wayan Warmada

Gnuplot pages in Italian:

Tutorial by Giuseppe Ciaburro
Translation of the Gnuplot 5.4 User Manual by Alice Lopoeta

Gnuplot pages in Japanese:

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 pages in Polish:

Polish Wikibooks pages

Gnuplot pages in Portuguese:

gnuplot FAQ for Brazilian users
Aplicativo gnuplot: Comandos básicos, tutorial e exemplos de aplição by prof. Mauricio Galo

Gnuplot pages in Slovak:

Série VŠ učebnic FEI TU Košice: gnuplot, autor Jozef Doboš

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Version: October 2025