Graphical tools
From Robin
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Figures / Illustrations
- Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop - for students only through UiO programkiosk?
- Inkscape
- Gimp
- Directly in Latex (TikZ/PGF: https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf)
- Lucid charts
- Powerpoint, Keynote, …
- Google draw, in Google disk
- Photopea (online editor)
- Figma?
- Draw.io
- Linux-program for grafer, finn ut navn
Plotting, Graphs
- Python
- Matplotlib (see Mouret's tutorial for publication quality plots )
- Seaborn (easy to create good looking plots, uses Matplotlib internally, see for example tutorial here)
- Export to Latex (TikZ/PGF; https://github.com/nschloe/tikzplotlib)
- R
- ggplot2 (with Rstudio)
- Export to Latex (TikZ/PGF; https://github.com/daqana/tikzDevice)
- Matlab (available at uio)
- Export to Latex (TikZ/PGF; https://github.com/matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz)
- Octave (free alternative to matlab)
- Export to Latex (TikZ/PGF; https://github.com/matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz)
- Gnuplot (free)
- Desmos.com (web based)
- javaFX
- excel (uio)
Digitalize Figures
- Python: https://github.com/dilawar/PlotDigitizer
- Matlab: https://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2013/12/31/automating-data-extraction-1/
- External App: WebPlotDigitizer
How to Export Figures
- before saving the graphics in the respective programs
- check font size and type
- check colormaps (see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19160-7)
- avoid bitmap graphics if possible and especially jpg!
- preferably use vector graphics such as svg, pdf or eps
- For Latex
- recommended approach: save as pdf, use pdfcrop
- epstopdf - usually installed with latex
- pdfcrop - usually installed with latex
- for direct inclusion to Latex use the scripts linked above to create TikZ/PGF files
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