Any graph plotting tool better than GNU plot? [closed]

Question

I have used GNU-plot for quite a long time and the thing I didn't like about it the quality of graph it produces.

I admire the ease with which we can plot graphs in gnu-plot, but i wished that the resultant graph was better in terms of quality. For example: the thickness of lines, color quality etc..

So is there any tool that retains the ease-of-use of GNU PLOT but eliminates the quality issues?

[I like the graph that excel produces, but unfortunately its not on Linux...]

Answer 1

If you want another tool than gnuplot, then you are using it wrongly. I agree, the default colors and settings do not look that pretty, but you can so easily tweak it in your definition file ~/.gnuplot

set macros
png="set terminal png size 1800,1800 crop enhanced font \"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/times.ttf,30\" dashlength 2; set termoption linewidth 3"
eps="set terminal postscript fontfile \"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/times.ttf\"; set termoption linewidth 3;

set style line 1 linecolor rgb '#de181f' linetype 1  # Red
set style line 2 linecolor rgb '#0060ae' linetype 1  # Blue
set style line 3 linecolor rgb '#228C22' linetype 1  # Forest green

set style line 4 linecolor rgb '#18ded7' linetype 1  # opposite Red
set style line 5 linecolor rgb '#ae4e00' linetype 1  # opposite Blue
set style line 6 linecolor rgb '#8c228c' linetype 1  # opposite Forest green

Sample script:

@png
set output "output.png"
plot x ls 1, -x ls 2, x**3 ls 3

And you have quite a nice graph already. Tweak linewidth and fontsize a bit, and you can do better than you would ever obtain with Excel.

Answer 2

You could give R a try. R has different graph plotting libraries. And it's very well explained in this SO question here - Relationship between plotting packages in R