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Veusz - A Scientific Plotting Package
-Veusz is a GUI scientific plotting and graphing package. It is designed
-to produce publication-ready Postscript or PDF output. SVG, EMF and
-bitmap export formats are also supported.
+Veusz is a scientific plotting package. It is designed to produce
+publication-ready PDF or SVG output. Graphs are built-up by combining
+plotting widgets. The user interface aims to be simple, consistent and
+powerful.
-The program runs under Unix/Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, and binaries
-are provided. Data can be read from text, CSV, HDF5 or FITS files. In
-addition, you can also enter, manipulate or examine data from within
-the application. In Veusz plots are created by building up plotting
-widgets with a consistent object-based interface. The program also
-provides a command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to
-its plotting facilities. It can also act as a Python plotting module.
-Veusz is written in Python. Its user interface uses PyQt and Numpy is
-used to manipulate data.
+Veusz provides GUI, Python module, command line, scripting, DBUS and
+SAMP interfaces to its plotting facilities. It also allows for
+manipulation and editing of datasets. Data can be captured from
+external sources such as Internet sockets or other programs.
-The hdf5 library is an optional dependency (needed only if you want to
-use HDF5 files).
+See the complete release notes for Veusz 2.0 at
+https://veusz.github.io/releasenotes/2.0.txt
+
+Sphinx is an optional dependency (used to rebuild the manual).