Ah, attention that both "plt.rc(......" blocks in my examples are completely optional, I just use them to better match the default LaTeX visuals.
On Monday, May 12, 2014 1:38:54 PM UTC+1, Cristóvão Duarte Sousa wrote: > > Hi, > > Were you aware that matplotlib itself has a PGF/TikZ backend > http://matplotlib.org/users/pgf.html ? > > With it one does not need to use matplotlib2tikz, and one can save plots > either as PFG files, prepared to > be included in some LaTeX document, or directly as PDF. > > It took me long time to figure out how to properly tell matplotlib (from > within Julia) to use that backend to > save PDF (I had to use PyCall in the end), but since then I've been > successfully using this feature in Julia. > > An example of how to save a figure in PGF source: > > using PyPlot > > ##### plot appearance setup > linewidth = 0.4 > plt.rc("axes", linewidth=linewidth) > plt.rc("font", family="") > plt.rc("axes", titlesize="small", labelsize="small") > plt.rc("xtick", labelsize="x-small") > plt.rc("xtick.major", width=linewidth/2) > plt.rc("ytick", labelsize="x-small") > plt.rc("ytick.major", width=linewidth/2) > plt.rc("legend", fontsize="small") > > #### plot > x = linspace(0,2pi,100); > fig = plt.figure(figsize=(3,2)); > plot(x,sin(x),color="red"); > title(L"Test plot"); > xlabel(L"$x$"); > ylabel(L"$\sin(x)$"); > > #### save plot as PGF source (no setup needed) > plt.savefig("test.pgf") > > If one wants to directly generate a PDF, then > > ### setup matplotlib to save PDF with the PGF backend (tricky in Julia) > using PyCall > backend_pgf = pyimport("matplotlib.backends.backend_pgf") > backend_bases = pyimport("matplotlib.backend_bases") > backend_bases[:register_backend]("pdf", backend_pgf[:FigureCanvasPgf]) > > ### setup PGF-PDF backend output appearance > plt.rc("pgf", texsystem="pdflatex", > preamble=L"""\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage{lmodern}""") > > #### save directly as PDF (there is NO need to save as PFG first) > plt.savefig("test.pdf", transparent=true) > > I think you can make your package to use this features. > > Cheers, > Cristóvão > > On Monday, May 12, 2014 11:04:13 AM UTC+1, Oliver Lylloff wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> For several years (in the dark Matlab-ages before Julia), I used >> matlab2tikz <https://github.com/nschloe/matlab2tikz> to generate nice >> looking pdf figures for academic reports. It's a nice tool and I personally >> like the idea that my data is exported from matlab to a .tikz or .tex file >> that I can make changes to without having to open matlab and reexport my >> figures. >> >> Julia already has some very nice plotting features in Winston, Gadfly and >> matplotlib (IJulia), am I forgetting someone? The exporting options are >> good and useful for many different purposes. However, for me, there's >> something extraordinary about the tikz/pgf plots that I haven't been able >> to reproduce with these packages. >> >> Therefore I've made a quick-and-dirty module >> https://github.com/1oly/PrintFig.jl that uses PyCall to call >> matplotlib2tikz <https://github.com/nschloe/matplotlib2tikz>, a close >> relative to matlab2tikz, that exports figure objects to a .tex file using >> the standalone latex documentclass. I like this approach and it creates the >> figures that I like for academic work. It's not the intention to add this >> to METADATA but merely to get a discussion going - if anyone is interested >> at all... >> >> If anyone has comments, suggestions or want to discuss workflows for >> generating latex friendly plots, don't be shy :) >> >> Cheers, >> Oliver >> >
