[vslist] good plotting program?--MATLAB?

[David J.Thirde]

Hi all,

Has anybody figured out how to make Matlab export plots as colour postscript
files?

Regards, David




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denis Pelli" <denis.pelli@verizon.net>
To: "Mickey Rowe" <rowe@psych.ucsb.edu>
Cc: <vslist@visionscience.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: [vslist] good plotting program?--MATLAB?


> dear mickey
>
> i find that it's very easy to create an initial graph in MATLAB, but
> that graph is rough and hard to improve. i've always given up before
> reaching anything like what i consider publication quality. (I have
> published a few MATLAB graphs, and i'm embarrassed by how rough they
> look.) Note, however, that my experience is with MATLAB 5. I am just
> about to install MATLAB 7 and i don't know whether things have
> improved.
>
> I like the graphical user interface of kaleidagraph in which you can
> click on and tweak nearly everything, visually. it's a fast way of
> achieving a good graph.  i recognize the value, in principle, of having
> an alternate programmatic interface (as in Mathematica, Igor, and
> MATLAB), for occasions when you'll be producing many similar graphs,
> but i've had surprisingly little need for that in my work.
>
> many people seem to use one program to create the graph, and another to
> tweak it. E.g. Mathematica-Illustrator; Mathematica-PowerPoint;
> Excel-Canvas.  i don't like that approach as i find that my graphs go
> through many drafts in which we add a bit of data or change the model
> slightly, and all the tweaking is lost every time you recreate the
> graph.
>
> best
>
> denis
>
> On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:12 PM, Mickey Rowe wrote:
>
> >
> > Denis Pelli wrote:
> >
> >> version 1.0 of the Psych-toolbox for Mac OS X is being released now.
> >
> >> That software, an extension to MATLAB,
> >
> > Which points up something I've been wondering about all day... Denis,
> > why do you feel a need to use anything besides Matlab for plotting?
> >
> > -- 
> > Mickey Rowe     (rowe@psych.ucsb.edu)
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