What is the difference between Xmgr and Grace?
Apart from the licensing, the main difference is that Grace is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). This was achieved through a major rewrite of all the mid-level drawing routines and the use of the device-independent Type 1 font rendering library T1lib for typesetting. For help with changing from Xmgr to Grace see section Xmgr to Grace migration guide in the User’s Guide (question User’s Guide. There are currently several features of Xmgr which are not yet implemented in Grace (of course, alongside with a lot of new stuff not found in Xmgr). A full compatibility is desirable except for “bad” features of Xmgr.