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Formatting Plots with the User Interface

Plot Type Specific Help

• Basic 1D and Tiled Plots

• Waterfall Plots

• Colorfill and Contour Plots

• 3D Plots: Surface and Wireframe

Plot Toolbar

We will cover use of the Fitting Tab later…

For more information on Superplot, see Superplot

Plots Toolbox

Click Menus

ptions Menu

1D plots

TIP: Change a Legend entry by editing Set curve label on the Curves tab. Then on the Legend tab there are Color and Font options.

Image Plots

File > Settings

Useful Key Shortcuts

Mantid plots support multiple key shortcuts by default. Please note especially the shortcuts k and l, which are useful for quickly switching between linear and log axes scales.

Action	Key shortcuts
Toggle fullscreen	f, ctrl+f
Reset to homme	h, r
Go back to previous view	c, backspace
Go forward to next view	v
Pan	p
Zoom	o
Save	s
Quit figure	q, ctrl+w, cmd+w
Toggle major grids	g
Toggle minor grids	G
Switch x scale between log/linear	k
Switch y scale between log/linear	l

Other Plotting Documentation

• Formatting Plots with a script

• Matplotlib in Mantid

• Matplotlib Keyboard Shortcuts