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What are the (free) competitors?What are the (free) competitors?Posted Oct 7, 2006 3:20 UTC (Sat) by wjhenney (guest, #11768)In reply to: What are the (free) competitors? by dberkholz Parent article: OOo gives chart module a brand new look (Linux.com)
I've created publication-quality gnuplot graphs. "publication quality" is a pretty meaningless phrase really. Ten years ago I used to use PGPLOT for the figures in my published papers. I wouldn't do that now, but plenty of people still do (or worse, Supermongo!) On the other hand, gnuplot's postscript driver does not produce very pleasing output IMNSHO. For example, although it is possible to do superscripts, greek letters, etc, the results look very ugly (no proper kerning, for instance). It is possible to get nice-looking output from gnuplot by using the metapost or ps/latex driver, or, alternatively, postprocessing the postscript with something like psfrag. I used to faff around with terrible hacks like that, until I discovered PyX.
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What are the (free) competitors? Posted Oct 7, 2006 4:09 UTC (Sat) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] Yep, that's a lot more important in fields I'm not in. I don't need to use funny symbols or equations as axis labels.
What are the (free) competitors? Posted Oct 17, 2006 19:44 UTC (Tue) by kreutzm (subscriber, #4700) [Link] What is your problem is supermongo? Except for the fact that it is not free software I found its output quite satisfying, much better than gnuplot. Of course, it is limited (e.g. 2D) and a little archaic in usage. But once I accepted those, I was quite happy.
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