Re: automating charts and graphs
Re: automating charts and graphs
- Subject: Re: automating charts and graphs
- From: Rick Norman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:35:39 -0500
Thanks for the feed back. Illustrator 10 is on the list of possible apps,
although I felt it might be advantageous to ask this group just in case
there might be something I haven't heard of. I have heard mixed reviews on
Deltagraph, since I am not familiar with it, I'll have to research it.
Thanks,
Rick Norman
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From: "Jens Eliasson" <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 06:26:40 +0200
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: automating charts and graphs
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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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>> 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
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database. In this case it makes pies, lines and bars. For the solution
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Deltagraph 4.5 from SPSS is used. The result is an EPS-file which then is
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placed in Quark etc.
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Deltagraph has a couple of errors in its AppleEvents handling, but so far
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I have found work-arounds for all the things I've found. The biggest trap
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is definetly that Deltagraph has a small limit on paths, so don't put
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files to deep in the file hierarchy.
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Also for pie charts the description text can only be one line of text in
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Deltagraph. In the script I have done I make an exception for them and
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handle the descriptions for the pies with a vector calculation for
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placement in QuarkXpress instead. The reason for this is to make the pie
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charts fit exactly into a specified area independently of the length of
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the descriptions.
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I did the major part of this two years ago. Today I would take a good look
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at Illustrator 10 first.
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Jens Eliasson
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<email@hidden>, www.tessla.se
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