Plots.jl: Label fontsize not changing pgfplots backend

Created on 31 Oct 2016 · 5Comments · Source: JuliaPlots/Plots.jl

The following command with pgfplots backend is not changing label fontsize. Same command with pyplot backend works just fine.

scatter(Sol_U,:tof,:vinf,xlabel="Time (years)", ylabel="Arrival V(km/s)", marker = (:c, 2,stroke(0)),xlims = (6,12),tickfont=font(28),guidefont=font(28))

where Sol_U is a dataframe.

I am using plots 0.9.4+ (master) and my Julia version is 0.5.1-pre+2

Is this a known issue ?
thanks,
Nitin

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What I can say, is that I believe the design of PGFPlotsX is such that it might be easier to create the Plots backend for it than for vanilla PGFPlots.jl.

If anyone feels like trying an implementation and encounters some problems I am happy to help but I will probably not do the work myself right now since I am a bit busy with other Julia stuff, and quite happy just using the PGFPlotsX API.

KristofferC on 15 Nov 2017

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Fonts aren't handled currently by the PGFPlots backend. In fact that backend has gotten very little love lately... contributions welcome!

tbreloff on 2 Nov 2016

Well, now I see why I was having trouble doing this....@Kristofferc might your package https://github.com/KristofferC/PGFPlotsX.jl be a better backend than PGFPlots.jl for doing LaTEx plots in Plots.jl?

huckl3b3rry87 on 15 Nov 2017

In my view, the best backend package is the one whose maintainer actively wants to be a good Plots backends (so I'm very open to PGFPlotsX)

mkborregaard on 15 Nov 2017

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What I can say, is that I believe the design of PGFPlotsX is such that it might be easier to create the Plots backend for it than for vanilla PGFPlots.jl.

KristofferC on 15 Nov 2017

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Fixed by https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/1571