pltpublish

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Utility package that takes care of configuring Matplotlib for publication-ready figures!

pip install pltpublish

Before                            After

                                                  > import pltpublish as pub
                                                  > pub.setup()
# your plot code using plt                        > # your plot code using plt
plt.savefig("my_fig.eps")                         > pub.save_fig("my_fig.eps")

Without pltpublish	With pltpublish

Recommendation

If you are using LaTeX then perhaps TikzPlotLib will be highly relevant.

All Features

• setup calls all setup_* methods
• setup_colorblind configures matplotlib to use a colorblind palette
• setup_latex_fonts configures matplotlib to use LaTeX fonts
• set_size_pixels enables to set the size of an existing figure in pixels
• save_fig acts like pyplot.savefig but guarantees that the grid is on and removes outer white space and also enables to scale up or down the figure before saving
• extract_legend_as_figure extracts the legend of your figure and plots it on another new figure
• layout_for_subplots finds automatically a good layout given the number of plots you have to plot on the same figure
• get_color_cycle gets you the current default color cycle
• set_color_cycle sets the current default color cycle