diff --git a/Tools/TimePlot.hs b/Tools/TimePlot.hs
--- a/Tools/TimePlot.hs
+++ b/Tools/TimePlot.hs
@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@
   "     'what was the average number of active events or impulses in that",
   "     interval'. When used inside 'within', the histogram is a stacked one,",
   "     with one vertical bar per subtrack in each bin.",
+  "  'count N' is same as 'acount N' but scaled by the bin size, i.e. rather than ",
+  "     activity rate per time unit, it's activity count per time bin. ",
   "  'apercent N B' is for activity percentages of a basis: like 'acount N',",
   "     but instead of X you get 100*X/B",
   "  'afreq N' is for activity frequencies: it's like acount, but relative",
@@ -240,7 +242,7 @@
     ; OutPS  -> PS
     ; OutSVG -> SVG
     }
-  let render r w h f = renderableToFile (fo_size .~ (w, h) $ fo_format .~ format $ def) r f
+  let render r w h f = renderableToFile (fo_size .~ (w, h) $ fo_format .~ format $ def) f r
   case conf of
     ConcreteConf {
         parseTime=parseTime, inFile=inFile, chartKindF=chartKindF,
diff --git a/Tools/TimePlot/Conf.hs b/Tools/TimePlot/Conf.hs
--- a/Tools/TimePlot/Conf.hs
+++ b/Tools/TimePlot/Conf.hs
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@
         parseKind :: [String] -> ChartKind LocalTime
         parseKind ["acount",  n  ] = KindACount    {binSize=read n}
         parseKind ("acount":_)     = error "acount requires a single numeric argument, bin size, e.g.: -dk 'acount 1'"
+        parseKind ["count",  n  ]  = KindCount    {binSize=read n}
+        parseKind ("count":_)      = error "count requires a single numeric argument, bin size, e.g.: -dk 'count 1'"
         parseKind ["apercent",n,b] = KindAPercent  {binSize=read n,baseCount=read b}
         parseKind ("apercent":_)   = error "apercent requires two numeric arguments: bin size and base value, e.g.: -dk 'apercent 1 480'"
         parseKind ["afreq",   n  ] = KindAFreq     {binSize=read n}
diff --git a/Tools/TimePlot/Plots.hs b/Tools/TimePlot/Plots.hs
--- a/Tools/TimePlot/Plots.hs
+++ b/Tools/TimePlot/Plots.hs
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 
 initGen :: ChartKind LocalTime -> PlotGen
 initGen (KindACount bs)         = genActivity (\sns n -> n) bs
+initGen (KindCount bs)          = genActivity (\sns n -> n*toSeconds bs (undefined::LocalTime)) bs
 initGen (KindAPercent bs b)     = genActivity (\sns n -> 100*n/b) bs
 initGen (KindAFreq bs)          = genActivity (\sns n -> if n == 0 then 0 else (n / sum (M.elems sns))) bs
 initGen (KindFreq bs k)         = genAtoms atoms2freqs bs k
diff --git a/Tools/TimePlot/Types.hs b/Tools/TimePlot/Types.hs
--- a/Tools/TimePlot/Types.hs
+++ b/Tools/TimePlot/Types.hs
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
                | KindDuration  { subKind :: ChartKind t, dropSubtrack :: Bool }
                | KindWithin    { mapName :: S.ByteString -> S.ByteString, subKind :: ChartKind t }
                | KindACount    { binSize :: Delta t }
+               | KindCount     { binSize :: Delta t }
                | KindAPercent  { binSize :: Delta t, baseCount :: Double }
                | KindAFreq     { binSize :: Delta t }
                | KindQuantile  { binSize :: Delta t, quantiles :: [Double] }
diff --git a/timeplot.cabal b/timeplot.cabal
--- a/timeplot.cabal
+++ b/timeplot.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: timeplot
-version: 1.0.25
+version: 1.0.26
 cabal-version: >=1.6
 build-type: Simple
 license: BSD3