I used Plots for some time, and am quiet unsatisfied with the figure quality. The tutorial gives us some example, which shows its simplicity. However, none of those figures are publication-quality. I reproduced these plots using PyPlot.jl and GR.jl, they look much better. Therefore, the poor quality…

It’s also possible that examples used in the documentation have been reduced in size/quality for practical reasons.

I fully agree with @Tamas_Papp : if you want to help, the best way is to be very specific about what could be improved so that the Plots developers can see whether some attributes could have a better default (I guess that’s what this is about, as you can most likely get to a “publication quality” fig…

I don’t think plots should be on the homepage for the Julia programming language. It makes more sense to me to have that in the packages that provide the plotting functionality.

I do not like the title, and I think for now there are at least 2 or more feasible options for data visualization in Julia. For example, I use the PlotlyJS package pretty often, and it works all well.

Could you somehow qualify what ‘publication quality’ means for you. In some previous discussions: tiff format and hight dpi font selection and quality size, geometry and placement of legends/title/additional text ?

Some of the bad things are: the default line color, the ticks width, tick length, the fonts for some backends, GR for example, the savefig(“test.eps”) produce ugly (wrong orientation) labels, especially when they contains LaTeXstrings. size, geometry and placement of legends/title/additional text s…

The Plots.jl package is not under heavy development anymore, what is happening now is mostly small fixes and code contributions from a few maintainers and users. The main creator of the package, Tom Breloff, is not touching the code anymore at the frequency he used to. @tbreloff can you elaborate on…

I think it is rude to ping the developers when the OP is unwilling even to make the effort of providing an MWE. I still have no idea why and what precisely @111 considers “ugly”; chasing this without his cooperation is a potential timesink with little benefit. Conversations like this disincentivize…

I am not pinging him to discuss about this thread, I am pinging him to know what is the future of Plots.jl in his view and current plans.

I think you are attributing me intentions which I do not have. The question you asked (Makie vs Plots.jl, and the future of the latter) was addressed by developers in this topic in detail.

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