#!/usr/bin/env gnuplot

#cairo does antialiasing of lines and text
  set term pngcairo font 'Sans,14' size 640,480
  set title 'www.pixelbeat.org PageViews/day in 2011'

#log scale shows relative changes better
  set logscale y
  set yrange ['500':'30000']

#parse dates on input
  set xdata time
  set timefmt '%d/%b/%Y'
  #explicitly set x axis range (must match input timefmt)
  set xrange ['1/Jan/2011':'31/Dec/2011']
  #display month abbreviation for x labels
  set format x '%b'

#setup the tics and labels
  set tics out
  #place month labels between tics
  set xtics offset graph 0.04,0.04 nomirror
  set mxtics 0
  set ytics nomirror
  set tics font 'Sans,8'
  set lmargin 5.8
  set rmargin 1.9

#gray grid lines
  set style line 2 lt 2 lc rgb '#E0E0E0' lw 1
  set grid xtics ytics mytics ls 2

#green graph
  set style line 1 lt 2 lc rgb '#B4C856' lw 1
  set style fill transparent solid 0.5 border

plot '-' using 1:2 notitle with filledcurves x1 ls 1