Re: How to get decent quality plots.
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 - Subject: [mg57399] Re: How to get decent quality plots.
 - From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
 - Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 05:00:30 -0400 (EDT)
 - Organization: Uni Leipzig
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 - Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
 
Hi,
RandSeed[11];
ListPlot[
  Table[{x, Random[Real, {0, x}]}, {x, 0, 10}], 
Frame -> True,
  TextStyle -> {FontFamily -> "Times"}, 
PlotLabel -> "64 cycles in FIFO",
  FrameLabel -> {"S/N dB", "RMS error mm"}
]
??
Regards
  Jens
"Dave" <nospam at nowhere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:d742ff$im2$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> I'm using ListPlot to plot some data points and 
> have used options like
>
> PlotLabel -> "64 cycles in FIFO", AxesLabel -> 
> {"S/N dB", "RMS error mm"}
>
> But the graphs come out look pretty awful.
>
> 1) The font looks like courier
> 2) The text on the x-axis starts at the end of 
> the axis, not under the
> numbers which is more usual.
> 3) The text on the y-axis runs horizontally, 
> along the top, rather than
> vertically.
>
> Any suggestions for some ways to make graphs 
> look better. I don't want
> to have to export the data into Excel!!
>