Some time ago I wrote a script to use pgfplots from octave/Matlab: https://bitbucket.org/mbaz/printpgf/src/28cead667bda6ec745a4418bc408f7f712cf8433/inst/printpgf.m
It's very easy to use and I've used it for several publications. I tried it to make it very easy to perfectly match fonts with the rest of your document, by including a document preamble that you specify. I want to port this to Julia, but I haven't had the time. If somebody thinks this is a good idea, feel free to copy it. -- mb On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Oliver Lylloff <[email protected]>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 >
