Since 9 months I am trying to find a good Julia plotting library, but I was not successful. So I am going back to PythonPlot.jl, the latest wrapper for the Python based matplotlib library. What does it offer that the more native Julia libraries do not offer? A combination of features that are c…

Well, I use an old version of Makie for 3D plots, but I am not updating the version because the updates would brake my code a couple of times per year. So I will wait with using Makie for 2D until the 1.0 version of Makie. And is Makie able to export high quality graphics for publications?

[image] ufechner7: There are two things that I do not like: the diagram is not centred, instead there is a large margin on the right bad location of the legend, it hides one line For the first point, you have to use Measures and keyword argument to plot() function: rightmargin=-20mm For t…

And is Makie able to export high quality graphics for publications? Certainly, CairoMakie can export pdf / svg and for bitmaps you can oversample resolution as much as you want (soon also in GLMakie). I know you’ve had your frustrations with breaking changes in Makie. I’m not sure if it’s still …

[image] rafael.guerra: For the second point, I thought this had been implemented in Plots.jl following a push from @lmiq It should be, with an updated version of Plots you should get: [image] (ps: I didn’t test it with pythonplot(), I tested it with GR, I’m not sure if what we did at the P…

I think the main thing Makie could use is just a more “idiot-proof” API for the most common / simplest use cases. It’s an incredibly powerful library which comes with a lot of essential complexity, so I still sometimes struggle to do something basic like “plot some scatterpoints then a linear regres…

[image] ufechner7: bad location of the legend, it hides one line Following https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/4536 , by @lmiq , it shouldn’t be too hard to reuse the automatic placement logic used in the GR backend for the PythonPlot (and other) backends. EDIT: just saw [FR] optimal …

[image] rafael.guerra: For the first point, you have to use Measures and keyword argument to plot() function: rightmargin=-20mm Why? Why have things to be so complicated? Why can Plots.jl not see that there is a whitespace that is not needed? This is what I mean with the low quality of Julia…

[image] ufechner7: Why? Why have things to be so complicated? Perhaps because the people with your know-how haven’t found the time or the interest to improve things?

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