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+acre - A cairo-based library for creating plots and charts.
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+Acre is a small C library for creating graphical plots and charts.
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+It's simple to use and generates quite lovely output, but only with
+a very limited set of features, (currently just line charts with
+axis ticks, axis labels, a title, and an optional legend).
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