> I hear this labeling comment re. PGPLOT vs PLplot often when this subject > comes up. If you don't mind, I'm curious what exactly people are referring > to. Are the PLplot fonts rendered poorly? Are the labels positioned poorly?
It's a purely personal unreasonable grudge against PLplot in my case. For me, it's a hangover from when I used to use Origins (a Windows data graphing program) where the graph output would look great but it would always use Helvetica for the labelling, which looked brutally ugly to my eyes - the 'feel' of the plot would be entirely different from the font. PGPLOT uses a custom sans serif font that is far more pleasing to my eye, and it is a long-time standard for plotting in astronomical journals and papers. PLplot defaulted to Helvetica for the labels when I last tried it, but digging through the docs, I see that it can also do TrueType and postscript fonts. I need to have a play around and find a good set of defaults to use. I also forgot - PGPLOT has the TRANSFORM keyword, so I could plot up images with suitable translations and rotations in place, with appropriate pixel orientations. Very useful. Again, PLplot probably has an option for a linear transformation matrix in there somewhere. If I find a good set of defaults, I'll send it to the list and wiki. Matt _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
