Hello,

Thank you for your work. Could you give me an idea of the pros and cons of 
PLplot versus Matplotlib?

Cheers,
Daniel.


On Sunday, 23 August 2015 06:34:38 UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've started working on a Julia PLplot wrapper 
> <https://github.com/wildart/PLplot.jl>. PLplot is a powerful 
> cross-platform library that can be used to create standard x-y plots, 
> semi-log plots, log-log plots, contour plots, 3D surface plots, mesh plots, 
> bar and pie charts, dynamic plots, animation, etc. Library supports 
> multiple output formats (PDF, PNG, etc...)  and devices (X, Qt, GTK+).   
> If you haven't seen it, look here for examples. 
> <http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples.php>
>
> I currently wrapped routings which cover basic functionality and allow to 
> run most of examples. I've tried to make a Gadfly backend but unfortunately 
> the way PLplot works with colors makes it very hard to integrate. I guess 
> wrapper going to be stand-alone package.  So, help required with following:
>
>
>    - High-level plotting functions
>    - Binary dependency installation
>    - More examples and test
>    - Documentation
>    
> New ideas and interesting examples are always welcome.
> -- Art
>

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