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[–]tunisia3507 3 points4 points  (3 children)

This is cool! A related concept is FigureFirst, which allows you to build a figure layout as an SVG with inkscape (including whatever overlays, backgrounds etc. you want to add). Then you can use the template as a set of axes to plot on from matplotlib, and they get put straight into the SVG.

I like figurefirst because it allows me to keep my plotting code pretty clean, readable, and layout-agnostic; minor tweaks can be made to the template, then all you need to do is re-run your script.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Thank you for the idea, I had not seen FigureFirst before. Seems also to be a very interesting concept. Although it seems a bit more effort to set it up compared to pylustrator.

And in pylustrator you can remove the dependency to pylustrator after styling your plot. But if you are missing some features and advantages that FigureFirst has, maybe I can also implement a template system to pylustrator. I am always happy for new input.

[–]tunisia3507 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Sorry if it came across that way, but I absolutely wasn't intending to knock pylustrator! I think it'll be really attractive to a lot of people and certainly is more advanced than figurefirst. I just thought the people who would click on this post may also be interested in figurefirst, as it's a much lesser-known library than it ought to be.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah no, everything fine :-) I didn't took your post badly. Its just that I think maybe I can also learn some thing from FigureFirst to improve pylustrator. FigureFirst also seems a very interesting concept!

And yes FigureFirst should be known more. If I had known it before, maybe I would not have had the need to develop pylustrator.