Add in 21.Jan. people are trying to tell me the style can be customized, but no one explains why the default style is not pretty at all. And if you think the default is pretty just say it’s pretty. Don’t tell me that it can be customized, because customization doesn’t conflict with pretty default …

Why would you use the defaults for publication? That’s a straw man you’re building for a fight nobody is trying to have. I like Plots, specifically because it’s very configurable. Personally, I almost always do default(;seriestype=:scatter, fontfamily="Computer Modern", label=nothing) at the star…

[image] Fred_He: A simple question, do you prefer to use the figure with default setting from Plots.jl for publication? I’d frequently used Plots.jl with the PGFPlots backend to produce figure with publication quality far superior to what matplotlib produces. You can use matplotlib2tikz for s…

I am surprised there are people defending the default plotting style. Not why, just why not have the default plots that look like something is for publication. Hope you can understand that a better default look doesn’t conflict with numerous options and configurability.

But my point is that the default plot from Plots.jl clearly doesn’t look like something for publication. I cannot even put the default plot figures for the presentation to my supervisor. But I can accept to put the figure from matplotlib in the slides to my supervisor.

I agree with some points - eg the legend autoplacement in Plots.jl can indeed be improved to avoid lines. But at least some of those differences are definitely a matter of preferences. For example I always put grids on my plots, and have the corresponding option set in matplotlib config.

In any case, many Plots.jl’s defaults are quite good and output nicely in *.svg or *.pdf formats, for instance: using Plots plot(atanh ∘ cos ∘ abs2, label="atanh(cos(x²))") savefig("Plots_gr_default.pdf") [Plots_gr_default_pdf] The fact is that the diversity of possible inputs is so great that i…

If you like matplotlib and its defaults, why don’t you just use PyPlot.jl instead of Plots.jl?

I’m not sure the question can be answered in a meaningful way. Your preferences are likely different than mine which are different than the next person. The authors of the plotting packages get to decide what the defaults are - I think that is reasonable.

So do you mean the default plotting of Plots.jl is better than matplotlib?

My question is actually why the defaults of Plots.jl is not pretty. Despite personal preferences, who can say the defaults of Plots.jl is better than matplotlib ?

Why Plots.jl produce figures looks not as good as other packages even with pyplot

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Why Plots.jl produce figures looks not as good as other packages even with pyplot

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