You could try my veusz plotting GUI / plotting package as an alternative to matplotlib: http://home.gna.org/veusz/ http://home.gna.org/veusz/ I think the outpu

You could try my veusz plotting GUI / plotting package as an alternative to matplotlib: http://home.gna.org/veusz/ http://home.gna.org/veusz/ I think the output looks nicer than matplotlib by default, and you can have a nice GUI and scriptable interface.