Hello, So... GR is a new plotting framework that is faster than Matplotlib and can be used as a backend for Matplotlib, including Julia's PyPlot package.
https://github.com/jheinen/gr http://gr-framework.org/tutorials/matplotlib.html I have installed GR, > Pkg.add("GR") and my reading of the second link is that all I have to do to get Matplotlib to use GR is change an environment variable: export MPLBACKEND="module://gr.matplotlib.backend_gr" So I did that, but that doesn't seem to have changed anything in PyPlot: julia> using PyPlot julia> plt[:get_backend]() "TkAgg" julia> plt[:switch_backend]() ERROR ... valid backends are ['pdf', 'pgf', 'Qt4Agg', 'Gtk' ...] So it looks like I'm missing some steps. I don't know whether the problem is on the Julia side or the Python side. Does anyone know how to get PyPlot to work with GR? On a related note, I tried using GR on its own. It went well until I tried to save. julia> using GR ... julia> savefig("plot.png") GKS: Ghostscript support not compiled in Since GKS was installed by `Pkg.add()`, I don't know how I'm supposed to recompile it with Ghostscript support. Does anyone know? Thanks for the help. Cheers, Daniel.
