| [science-iwg] Publication Quality Plotting |
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Dear Science Working Group, Sorry to bother you again, but your advice on jzy3d was excellent, and we again have a question that you might be able to help with. Our users keep asking for publication quality plotting (2d rather than 3d this time). Now to me this means SVG/PDF/EPS, at the full resolution of the data. We currently use the Nebula XYGraph, and have an export to SVG (I think using some old Graphiti code to bridge to the SVGGraphics2D in batik), but it is rubbish. I think this is because XYGraph’s line trace downsamples the data, so that
it doesn’t draw to the same pixel twice, but also because the trace directly uses the draw2D graphics drawLine to draw directly to the screen in pixel co-ordinates, not to the co-ordinate frame of the graph. This gives us an SVG that looks little better than
a bitmap (see attached screenshot from inkscape, inset shows what zoomed in data should look like). I know many people on here use SWTChart, does anyone know if this is likely to suffer the same issue? Does anyone have any other suggestions of a swt-compatible plotting library that might better support SVG export? Kind regards, Jake Dr Jacob Filik Senior Software Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8690 Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE
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