[vslist] good plotting program?--MATLAB?

[P. George Lovell]

Isn't that achieved by typing the print command, for example :-

	figure;
	surf(rand(10));
	print -depsc test.eps

Gives an eps file you can load into illustrator and tweak.


George



On 27 Jul 2004 at 16:20, David J.Thirde wrote:

> 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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Dr P. George Lovell,
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University of Bristol,
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