# State of Plotting Packages as of 2018/12/15

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-plotting-packages-as-of-2018-12-15/18698
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** plotting, packages
**Created:** [December 15, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-plotting-packages-as-of-2018-12-15/18698 "2018-12-15T19:58:25Z")
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### Author: ![ckoe-bccms](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ckoe-bccms/32/1816_2.png) [@ckoe-bccms](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ckoe-bccms)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/state-of-plotting-packages-as-of-2018-12-15/18698/20 "2018-12-16T09:40:14Z")

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Some anecdote you might find helpful concerning the current state as you are specifically asking about atom on windows 10.

Some of my students (atom on windows 10) encountered a situation where they could not get the plot to display consistently, often it would not update or most of the time not display at all. Might be an istance of [this one](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gr-plots-not-shown-in-own-gui-when-using-atom/13551/10) or something else, I did not investigate in depth.

> [@jonathanBieler](#):
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> You can also edit plots with inkscape (in svg or pdf)

My personal workflow for years has been to use whatever plotting package works (usually gnuplot on linux :-), export a vector format (.svg or in olden times .fig) and then to move legends, labels and change fonts/ font sizes as I like later.  
This is a very good suggestion if it is not possible to script/ automatize the plot generation completely and the vector format is small enough in size. Might be complete FEM meshes are a bit much for that, though.

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