<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/1 Bill Baxter <<a href="mailto:wbaxter@gmail.com">wbaxter@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Gustavo Carneiro <<a href="mailto:gjcarneiro@gmail.com">gjcarneiro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> ><br> > 2008/7/1 Rodrigo Araújo <<a href="mailto:alf.rodrigo@gmail.com">alf.rodrigo@gmail.com</a>>:<br> >><br> >> Hello everyone,<br> >><br> >> My name is Rodrigo and I've been using PyCairo for a while now, and would<br> >> like to congratulate everyone<br> >> responsible for this library, it simply works.<br> >><br> >> So, that said, I've developed a plotting library using Python and PyCairo.<br> ><br> > Not trying to put you down, but there is the excellent matplotlib already,<br> > which has an optional gtk/cairo backend.<br> <br> </div>I love matplotlib, but still you have to admit his graphs look a hell<br> of a lot sexier than the defaults spit out by Matplotlib.</blockquote><div><br>Indeed they do.  But for scientific publications you do _not_ want sexy looking graphics; it's a matter of scientific culture.<br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Nice work Rodrigo!</blockquote><div><br>Yes, very nice work.  I won't write papers with it, but for anything else I now know what to use :-)<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro<br>INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit<br> "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert