Juno & Julia 0.6.4 -- plotting?

[BLI]

I use Julia v.0.6.4 on latest Windows 10/64 bit with latest update of packages. Some “problems” with Juno and plotting:

1. using Plots, I assume that GR is the default backend. Today, the plots in Juno are “unusably” small:
   
   
   It is possible I’m getting old…, but my eyes are not made for reading such small plots.

• Is it possible to change the scaling of the plot window so that the plots appear larger on screen?
• Note: I haven’t noticed such small plots in Juno before – but then I haven’t used Juno for a while.

2. I normally use the pyplot backend because it traditionally has had better support for LaTeX. However, for a while, Juno has given the following error message when I try to use the pyplot() backend:
   
   
   
   Note:

• Command pyplot() seems to work in Juno…
• …while the subsequent command plot(x,y) gives this error message.

Any ideas on how to solve this problem are welcome.

[cortner]

I have the same problems…

[BLI]

Regarding my “problem 1”…

• I can zoom each plot by scrolling the mouse wheel. However, the granulation is too coarse… one move of the scroll wheel makes the plot way too big.
  I can also zoom each plot using the +/- buttons in the plot window. But it takes some 20 clicks on “+” to get the appropriate size. And there is no “memory”, so I have to do this for each new plot…

[nilshg]

These are both known issues:

• For the GR small plots issue see Plot size in Juno - #3 by Christopher_Fisher and links in there - the long and short is that this is a specific issue for the combination of Juno, Plots and GR in Julia 0.7 and is fixed in 1.0. The fix is a Plots.jl fix that isn’t being backported to 0.7 though. There was an issue opened on the GR repo which has a workaround here.

• For the pyplot runtime error see Julia throws an Runtime Error when trying to use PyPlot

[BLI]

Thanks, nilshg. I’ll check this out. NOTE however that the problem shows up in Julia v. 0.6.4, and not only in Julia v. 0.7. I cannot move to Julia 1.0 yet – there are some packages that I use that don’t yet work in Julia 1.0.