----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Davis" <[email protected]> To: "perldl" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:50 AM Subject: [Perldl] PGPLOT, Gnuplot and Plotting for Publication
> Ultimately I need to place some 2-D plots in my LaTex publication. > > I played with PGPLOT for a while, but I wasn't able to figure out how to > make the color/linestyle of the grid different from the axes and labels (I > strongly prefer a light gray grid color with black axes and tic labels). > Also I really want fine control over the tic locations which doesn't seem > possible at least with the high-level PGPLOT commands. I suspect it's > doable > with low-level type commands; but my efforts are slow going in figuring > these out. GD functionality (PDL::IO::GD) is also available with the ppm package from the Uwinnipeg rep. But I don't know what sort of mileage that provides. Looking at the PGPLOT test suite that comes with PGPLOT-2.20 from CPAN, I don't see any graphs there that even include a grid - so I'm not sure whether there's anything helpful there for you. (Could be worth a look.) As you probably already know, the basic "black graph on white background" is available by setting environment variables appropriately: set PGPLOT_FOREGROUND=black set PGPLOT_BACKGROUND=white set PGPLOT_RGB=C:\pgplot\bin\rgb.txt For me, the default was white graph on black background. Other than that, I couldn't quickly spot anything helpful in the pgplot docs ( http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/contents.html ). Have you been through them ? Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
