Coordinate Systems

xyscan uses 2 coordinate systems:

Local Coordinates

These are essentially the screen coordinates of the window in which the plot is displayed. The units are screen pixel. The upper left corner of the plot is defined as the origin (0,0) of the plot. x increases to the right, y increases downwards. They are displayed on the top of the Coordinate Display window once a plot is loaded.

Plot Coordinates

These are the coordinate of the plot/data points you want to scan. In order to transform local coordinates into plot coordinates, xyscan needs markers to be set along the axis and needs to know if the axis have a linear or logarithmic scale. The user has to provide the position of the markers in plot coordinates.