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How to save plots in grayscale

As sophomoric as this question seems, how should I save plots in grayscale in Mathematica? I generally like eps images for their scalability and I use ghostscript or other third party perl scripts ...
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348 views

Plot Option Precedence while combining Plots with `Show[]`

I like to build sophisticated plots by combining simpler ones with Show[]. Typically this involves setting non-default Plot-Options with the different ...
12
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3answers
419 views

How to plot a curve with border around the line?

This can be useful if the curve is passing over both dark and light backgrounds (like well-done subtitles in movies).
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2answers
325 views

About number truncation of ticks display in ListPlot

In my problem, I need to plot a figure in a relatively small region of the $x$ axis, e.g., ...
10
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3answers
575 views

Number format of axes in a plot

How can I have a conditional format of the values appearing in the axis of a plot ? I have in mind the number format options available in Excel for plots as described here ...
10
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2answers
532 views

Labels and tickmarks inside Frame

Is there a way to force Plot and related functions to place the tick labels inside, rather than outside a frame? For example, consider, ...
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2answers
136 views

How can automatic ticks be made “outie”?

By default, FrameTicks stick into the data area in a way that is sometimes uncomfortable. ...
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2answers
275 views

Why does ListPlot ignore some global options?

Why does the following plot no use the global PlotMarkers option? ...
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2answers
147 views

Manipulating OptionsPatterns[]

How do you combine OptionsPatterns? For example, I would like to have a function that can take both options that I specify, and options for all graphs: ...
3
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2answers
247 views

X label in GraphicsColumn is cut off

I'm trying to use GraphicsColumn to plot two curves with very different ranges. for example, ...
3
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1answer
468 views

Fixed color scale in multiple density plots

I think there should be a simple solution for my current problem, but neither StackOverflow (or the help of Mathematica) or Google have it. I have to plot multiple density plots with a color ...
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1answer
43 views

Reuse ParametricPlot3D plotting options [duplicate]

I create several ParametricPlot3D's that all should look the same: BoundaryStyle -> Thick, ...
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2answers
91 views

How can I define an option “packet” for plots so I can only alter the definition and all plots with that “packet” will change appearance? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Consistent Plot Styles across multiple MMA files and data sets So, here's my problem; I have a lot of data that is shown in different plots. I want all the plots to have ...
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2answers
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Plotting with NDSolve`StateData`

This question is a continuation of this. As answered by J.M., I am able to iterate a solution. However, I am unable to plot it. I am sure that this has to do with my inability to understand how the ...
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2answers
117 views

Filling for ListPolarPlot

I want to use Filling for ListPolarPlot in such a way that the points in the list are joined to the origin with a line colored ...
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1answer
139 views

Lines with label in Plot options syntax

I wrote a little function to add lines with labels to plots. It just creates customized {GridLines -> ..., Epilog -> ...} code: ...
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1answer
79 views

Is it possible to modify the tick marks in BarChart plot?

I need to specify the length of the tick marks on the x axis in a BarChart plot: ...
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0answers
239 views

Unexpected result from contour plot - where is the color gradient?

When I plot a contour plot of my (in)famous code :P I get some unexpected results that I don't quite understand. My code (the one that has ...