Re: automating charts and graphs
Re: automating charts and graphs
- Subject: Re: automating charts and graphs
- From: "Jens Eliasson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 06:26:40 +0200
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On Wed, 15 May 2002 10:35:21 -0500 Rick Norman <email@hidden> asked
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>Is anyone on the list having charts or graphs generated from data files
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in
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>an automated workflow? If so, would you share how you might be doing
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this?
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>Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
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In my work, I generate bar graphs with a "semi-automated" approach;
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my client's projects aren't consistent enough in layout to fully
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I have made a fully automated solution making graphs from data in a
database. In this case it makes pies, lines and bars. For the solution
Deltagraph 4.5 from SPSS is used. The result is an EPS-file which then is
placed in Quark etc.
Deltagraph has a couple of errors in its AppleEvents handling, but so far
I have found work-arounds for all the things I've found. The biggest trap
is definetly that Deltagraph has a small limit on paths, so don't put
files to deep in the file hierarchy.
Also for pie charts the description text can only be one line of text in
Deltagraph. In the script I have done I make an exception for them and
handle the descriptions for the pies with a vector calculation for
placement in QuarkXpress instead. The reason for this is to make the pie
charts fit exactly into a specified area independently of the length of
the descriptions.
I did the major part of this two years ago. Today I would take a good look
at Illustrator 10 first.
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Jens Eliasson
<email@hidden>, www.tessla.se
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