“The graphics package I use is Axum 4.1, which is now
distributed by MathSoft. It runs on all Windows platforms since 3.1. The current version
is Axum 5.0. It is a 32 bit program, and can run under Windows 3.1 or Win95. Axum 4.0
files can be read by Axum 5.0, but not vice versa. The academic, single-unit price of Axum
5.0 is $199.95. It is also part of the Professional version of MathCad 7.
I have been quite happy with Axum 4.1 as a technical
graphics program. After having used both it and Origin, I find I prefer Axum.
The way I use Axum is to bring up the graph in Axum, copy it
to the clipboard, and paste it into my EXP document. These operations are very
straightforward. (I presume it goes in as a Windows metafile). Finally, I crop and size
the graph in EXP. In my experience, this approach has been easy to implement and yields
documents of excellent visual quality that are well adapted to camera-ready publication.
The main work is to create the graph, as there are many
decisions to be made to arrive at the desired result. Axum has reasonably good tools for
accomplishing this task.”
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