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SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Circlotron on December 06, 2022, 09:34:43 am ---My point was that the legend does not match the graph lines.

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Yep. There's a few other points that look sub-par on this graph, but the legend is certainly the worst.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: TimFox on December 06, 2022, 08:35:23 pm ---Personally, I used "Grapher" from Golden Software to create technical graphs before I retired.
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Seems good. For those not afraid of command-line tools (and those that can actually benefit from that for automating graph generation for instance), GnuPlot is great. There's a learning curve though to get exactly what you want, but they provide a shitload of examples.

Otherwise, SciDavis isn't bad and is GUI-based.

Both can export in a very large number of formats including of course vector graphics.
Someone:

--- Quote from: IanB on December 06, 2022, 10:24:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on December 06, 2022, 08:35:23 pm ---A very simple example, using my choice on formats, is appended as a jpeg.
Since this was intended for insertion into a Word document, it is monochrome.
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That does look good.

By the by, I tend to use color freely in Word documents these days. For one, because they are mostly read on a screen and rarely printed anymore, and secondly if someone does want to print it then color printers are very common.
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There are alternative color sequences/distributions/scales that retain some/most of the intent when viewed without color (B&W reproduction, or color blind viewer):
https://bids.github.io/colormap/


--- Quote from: TimFox on December 06, 2022, 11:02:11 pm ---It's not cheap:  a single-user "perpetual" purchase, with 1 year support is $679;  a single-user subscription is $329/year.
https://www.goldensoftware.com/products/grapher
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Blimey! Glad there are open source alternatives these days:
https://matplotlib.org
and gnuplot as mentioned above by SiliconWizard:
http://www.gnuplot.info

Circlotron:

--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on December 06, 2022, 04:52:15 pm ---Was that in a reputable journal or what?
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From this paper, page 9.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1303/1/012036/pdf
T3sl4co1l:
Yeh, not top-tier I guess.  Apparently they've retracted a bunch of articles for lack of peer review or other shady circumstances.  But like mentioned about conference papers and stuff, maybe that's a kind of thing that's mildly reviewed and kinda not worth [reviewing heavily], *shrug*.

Tim
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