VEUSZ(1)

✨ VEUSZ(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Veusz manual page, aka the glow-up guide to your new fave scientific plotting situation 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Veusz — a scientific plotting and graphing application. periodt.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

veusz [options] [document.vsz]...

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so Veusz is a scientific plotting and graphing package, and no cap, it's designed to create publication-ready output in a whole variety of different output formats. the way it works is graphs are built-up by combining plotting widgets — it's giving lego but make it data 🧩

Veusz has:

• a GUI user interface (started with the veusz command),
• a Python module interface, and
• a scripting interface.

If you start it with zero command line arguments, Veusz will open up with a new empty document. otherwise? it'll open the documents you listed. iconic behaviour honestly.

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --unsafe-mode — Do not check opened scripts for the presence of unsafe Python commands. This allows you to create or open complete Python scripts with Veusz commands if they come from a trusted source.

⚠️ bestie listen to me: "trusted source" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence. only do this if you genuinely trust where the script came from, fr fr.

• --listen — Read Veusz commands from stdin, executing them, then writing the results to stdout. This option replaces the old veusz_listen.

In this mode Veusz does not read any input documents, but will use the first argument to the program as the window title, if given.

• --quiet — If in listening mode, do not open a window before running commands, but execute them quietly. stealth mode, lowkey 🤫
• --export=FILE — Export the next Veusz document file on the command line to the graphics file FILE. Supported file types include EPS, PDF, SVG, PNG, BMP, JPG and XPM. The extension of the output file is used to determine the output file format. There should be as many export options specified as input Veusz documents on the command line. one export per doc, matching set, no crumbs 💫
• --export-option=OPT — Adds the option given when exporting. Supported options are:
  • dpi=DPI — giving the resolution for bitmap output files (default 100)
  • color=True/False — to switch to monochrome output (default True)
  • page=[X,...] — gives a list of pages to export (default [0]), where the page numbers are numbered from 0
  • antialias=True/False — enables or disables antialiasing in bitmap output files (default True)
  • quality=VAL — gives the JPEG quality value (default 85)
  • backcolor='#RRGGBBAA' — gives the background color of bitmap files (default '#ffffff00')
  • pdfdpi=DPI — gives the DPI when outputting to PDF files (default 150)
  • svgtextastext=True/False — outputs text in SVG files as text, rather than as curves (default False)
• --veusz-plugin=FILE — Loads the Veusz plugin FILE when starting Veusz. This option provides a per-session alternative to adding the plugin in the preferences dialog box. it's giving "just for tonight" energy 🎀
• --help — Displays the options to the program and exits.
• --version — Displays information about the currently installed version and exits.

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs at https://github.com/veusz/veusz/issues

(not me telling you to snitch, but like... respectfully, please snitch 🙈)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Veusz was written by Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>.

This manual page was written by Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>.

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (C) 2003-2025 Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 💅 this was Veusz manual version 4.2, dated 2025-10-11. go make some absolutely stunning graphs, you main character 🦋✨👑