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Hey, and is there any sort of matplotlib market place where I could
put the file for general bashing/downloading once it can do more than
a sin-plot?
--Nico

> matplotlib. And I'm afraid that your translator will not do much more
> than converting very simple plots.
Although Pgfplots can also do ~somewhat~ fancy stuff, I think you're
definitely right on that one. When I look at the matplotlib gallery,
I'm getting dizzy.
For everyday purposes, though, I'm rather interested in somewhat
simple plots: 2D graphs, maybe an image plot, something like that.
I'll see how far I get with that..
Thanks very much for your guys' advice!
Cheers,
Nico

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Nico Schlömer <nic...@gm...> wrote:
> I attached a PDF with two figures, one PDF generated and one TikZ
> (generated using my little script). There's clearly a difference in
> how seamless the two figures embed into the document, but I might not
> be using the PDF backend appropriately. Any hints on how I could get
> the fonts in place to allow for a fairer comparison?
>
Matplotlib determines the font properties when the output file is created.
But, TikZ (at least the way how your translator works) lets those
information determined when latex is run.
No doubt that TikZ result is much better than the matplotlib backends,
but that is because TikZ and maplotlib works differently. While TikZ
results looks better, this will greatly limit the functionality of
matplotlib. And I'm afraid that your translator will not do much more
than converting very simple plots.
Anyhow, good luck with your project!
Regards,
-JJ

> The only real difference I see is font size.
And the font family, and the color.
The advantage that I see with TikZ is that the font is *exactly* the
font used in the surrounding text, no matter the scaling of the axes.
A major reason for me to use TikZ was actually that I can rescale my
figures later, without having to regenerate the plots anew, tinkering
with font sizes to make them ~sort of~ match. (Also, one can use LaTeX
colors in the plots, e.g. (as in my case), corporate colors as defined
in the presentation template.)
Cheers,
Nico

Nico Schlömer wrote:
> I attached a PDF with two figures, one PDF generated and one TikZ
> (generated using my little script). There's clearly a difference in
> how seamless the two figures embed into the document
The only real difference I see is font size. I"d play with that, and 
also play with how you scale the image when you embed it in TeX.
I know when I was putting a bunch of Matlab figures into a big LaTeX doc 
(years ago) , I got the best results by drawing the figures one size, 
then scaling them to fit the LaTeX doc (scaled to \texwidth, or 
something like that).
Also psfrag is great, though I haven't found a pdffrag -- is there one?
-Chris
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Hi,
I've started something for a translator, see
http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/other/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=matplotlib2tikz&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fmatplotlib2tikz.py&templatechoice=Elegant
It's my first time with Python, so there'll probably a lot of things
that you don't do (tm); hints very much appreciated!
> In my opinion, there is no reason that matplotlib can make user 100%
> happy, because matplotlib itself actually runs tex/latex in usetex
> mode. If TikZ can do that, I believe matplotlib also can do.
I attached a PDF with two figures, one PDF generated and one TikZ
(generated using my little script). There's clearly a difference in
how seamless the two figures embed into the document, but I might not
be using the PDF backend appropriately. Any hints on how I could get
the fonts in place to allow for a fairer comparison?
Cheers,
Nico