AquaTerm
AquaTerm is a macOS graphics rendering framework that allows command-line applications and scientific software (written in C, Fortran, Lisp, Perl, Python and Objective-C) to display vector graphics, text and images using a simple API. It acts as a plotting front-end that bridges older code to native Aqua, enabling applications like gnuplot, PGPLOT and PLplot to render visualizations. Users connect to AquaTerm through language-specific adapters that link with the AquaTerm framework. The output can be printed or saved as PDF or EPS files. It is primarily used by scientists, engineers and researchers working with legacy scientific computing code.
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1 suggestionAquaTerm is a framework component, not a standalone application — it is linked into scientific software that uses it for graphics rendering. The framework itself has not been updated since 2007, with the last documented release being version 1.0.1 in 2005. There is no native Apple Silicon build of this framework. The bundle ID format (net.sourceforge.aquaterm.framework) indicates it was designed to be embedded within or linked to by other applications. To resolve the incompatibility with Apple's removal of Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), you need to identify which scientific applications on your Mac depend on AquaTerm — this is typically gnuplot, PGPLOT-based tools, or PLplot applications — and either (1) update those host applications to versions that use native Apple Silicon graphics backends (most modern scientific plotting tools have moved away from AquaTerm to native solutions), or (2) contact the maintainers of those applications to request native Apple Silicon compatibility. The AquaTerm framework itself is effectively unmaintained; most active scientific software has migrated to native rendering approaches. If you rely on AquaTerm-dependent tools, reach out to those projects' developers for guidance on native alternatives.
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