Re: Sharing editable plots with non-octave users

[Joseph Wakeling]

Pablo wrote:
> All I could think of is to save the post-processed data in a file, make
> some script to plot them in Matlab and send her the data, script and a
> png plot. It's not an ideal solution, because I need to edit the script
> for each plot (to set the zoom, titles and whatnot) and I don't always
> have Matlab available to test it, but it's doable.

The typical process I noticed among biomed colleagues was to export the
figure in EPS format (meaning zoom issues go away), then import it into
CorelDraw or similar and edit there -- usually they would prettify
title, axes, legends etc. and use it to create beautiful multi-panel
figures.  (You also get beautiful typos from this process...:-)

Of course, you still lose the dynamic aspects of what you want to
achieve -- the ability to do data analysis, fitting, etc.  I don't
really see a way round that beyond actually sharing the data and code,
and taking care to make sure that your Octave code is MATLAB-compatible
(not too difficult, but occasionally irritating to be sure).