Re: can Octave plot figure which can be modified mannually?

[Ron . Simonson]

On 03/12/2015 04:40 AM, c. wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2015, at 11:42, Juan Pablo Carbajal<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Carlo de Falco<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > Il 12/mar/2015 06:41 "Torsten"<address@hidden>  ha scritto:
> > > > On 11.03.2015 22:32, Torsten wrote:
> > > > > On 11.03.2015 16:32, davidmalone wrote:
> > > > > > I'm new to Octave
> > > > > > in Matlab, we can plot figures and save them into .fig files
> > > > > > and we can modify components on fig files mannually, e.g, drag legend,
> > > > > > modify title/labels, blabla
> > > > > >
> > > > > > is it possible to use Octave to produce figures on which we can modify
> > > > > > its
> > > > > > components like we do on .fig files?
> > > > > > thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > The print command for exporting figures provides the fig-format, too
> > > > > (please refer to 'help print').
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, my answer wasn't correct. I was thinking of the wrong fig-format
> > > > (the one of xfig).
> > > >
> > > > Torsten
> > >
> > > Still, if you save figures as .fig or .svg they can be easily edited
> > > afterwards.
> > > c.
> > >
> > >
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> > If you print your figure to .svg you can afterwards edit it with
> > Inkscape. However you wont get m-code form this figure.
> > Now, if you think on a productive scenario, it is hardly the case that
> > you want to edit your intermediate figures (i.e. before publication in
> > article or presentation) every time. So it is best to create figures
> > that are almost camera ready with m-code in Octave and then export to
> > SVG for the final arrangements, e.g. adding figure background, adding
> > shadows to legends, rounding borders of frames, changing the axis
> > lines, etc...
> >
> > There is always a time compromise between how much you code in the
> > m-file and how much you work in Inkscape.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Another option I often use is to write plot data do csv from Octave
> and produce publication ready images with veusz: http://home.gna.org/veusz/
>
> c.
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I generally use Latex to write reports, articles, and presentations.
There are a lot of Latex packages to help with making plots look good.
For the simplest edits the pstricks packages handle most of my needs.

  http://www.latex-project.org/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

  https://www.tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSTricks

HTH, Ron.