Vaibhav Vaidya wrote:
> I was specifically looking to avoid MATLAB (which our lab has a linux
> license for), since to get any graph presentable after I generate it, I h
> ave
> to change the line width, increase font etc etc, in short sweat a lot. Th
> en
> there is some change required in the data and it starts all over. Whereas
>
> Origin seems to generate clean graphs to start with!
>
> Does Octave make un-printable graphs like MATLAB?
>
> Thanks
>
>   

IIRC, Octave doesn't do everything that MATLAB does (only emulates the 
matlab style code development). For example it doesn't have graphing 
built-in, but depends on other (gnuplot) tools for visualization 
<http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/textbooks/octave/octave_15.html>. Gnuplot 
<http://www.gnuplot.info/> makes graphs in many formats (LaTex, svg, 
png) & can be converted to postscript or pdf.  For graphing I have used 
GnuPlot (simple & scriptable), Guppi, Vis5d and some others... It really 
depends on your data, output display medium & application 
(2D,3D,StatAnalysis..) UCAR has some great Earth Science/Meteorology 
Apps. A good start is SAL...

SAL: Scientific Data Processing & Visualization
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at:8050/D/

Scientific Applications for Linux
http://linux.about.com/b/a/088502.htm

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