# Juno & Julia 0.6.4 -- plotting?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juno-julia-0-6-4-plotting/16306>\
**Category:** Juno\
**Created:** [October 14, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juno-julia-0-6-4-plotting/16306 "2018-10-14T13:40:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![BLI](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bli/32/37206_2.png) [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juno-julia-0-6-4-plotting/16306/1 "2018-10-14T13:40:37Z")

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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: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/4/1457f842b61c19012afa8631bbba2853bb5e3b11.png)  
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.

1. 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:  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/a/2/a2786253d9ad04d6cee682615a13474b798848c3.png)  
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.

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**Author:** ![cortner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cortner/32/204_2.png) [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juno-julia-0-6-4-plotting/16306/2 "2018-10-14T14:18:07Z")

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I have the same problems…

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**Author:** ![BLI](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bli/32/37206_2.png) [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juno-julia-0-6-4-plotting/16306/3 "2018-10-14T14:26:20Z")

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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…

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juno-julia-0-6-4-plotting/16306/4 "2018-10-14T14:27:03Z")

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These are both known issues:

- For the GR small plots issue see [Plot size in Juno - #3 by Christopher\_Fisher](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-size-in-juno/14959/3) 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](https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl/issues/153#issuecomment-424116976).

- For the pyplot runtime error see [Julia throws an Runtime Error when trying to use PyPlot](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-throws-an-runtime-error-when-trying-to-use-pyplot/6002)

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**Author:** ![BLI](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bli/32/37206_2.png) [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juno-julia-0-6-4-plotting/16306/5 "2018-10-14T14:29:16Z")

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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.