Figures, Plotting, Graph Origin, Windows, GUI Inkscape Matlab Paraview Gnuplot, unix OS, TUI Mathematica xfig LibreOffice Draw (1) Origin Pro: professional level, full-ledged, with statistics function Con: not free, not sure if there is free evaluation version (2) Origin-like software, QtiPlot derived QtiPlot is not free; Labplot is Linux only! SciDavis is cross-platform, a fork from QtiPlot, python scriptable Pro: SciDavis is free under GPLv2, without any restriction Con: SciDavis and Labplot stop at the early development stage; less functions than origin. (3) script byMatlab, pyLab(matplotlib), gnuplot Pro: good for bath processing, tight integration with data generation codes in matlab or python Con: need programming experience (4) Office Excel or LibreOffice Pro: widely available, good for report generation, Con: Mouse drag edit is not supported, not for high quality plot (5) Parav...