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I have a script from others that uses PyX - Python graphics package to generate graphics for LaTex.

Quoted from http://pyx.sourceforge.net/

PyX is a Python package for the creation of PostScript and PDF files. It combines an abstraction of the PostScript drawing model with a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2d and 3d plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.

  1. However its latest news is back at 2007. I was wondering if PyX is still active?
  2. If it is one of the best ways to generate graphics for LaTex?

Thanks and regards!

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    I am using matplotlib for most of my Python scientific graphics. It has nowadays a fairly good Latex interface – Danie Els May 12 '11 at 2:05
  • PyX is a wonderful and perfect tool! It doesn't get updates, but that may be because it's so well written! – user193435 Jul 25 at 18:23
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One of the more versatile packages for creating all kinds of graphs is PGF/TikZ. There is extensive documentation for it available in the PDF manual (note that this is for the CVS version, not for the last release).

I doubt it's very useful for 3D graphics but a special syntax for data visualization (like here) is currently under development and will be shipped with the next version.

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In case you need the interaction with Python, it might be worthy to have a look at PiScript. AFAIK, the author (Bill Casselman) uses this for the creation of the covers of AMS Notices.

Here's an example of a figure produced using PiScript:

enter image description here

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