Suggestions for scripted graphing
Suggestions for scripted graphing
- Subject: Suggestions for scripted graphing
- From: Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:43:04 +1000
I'm looking for suggestions and tips on what would be a good choice
for the automated creation of graphs for use in a publishing
scenario. The graphs are quite simple line graphs, the kind you seen
in the business pages of a newspaper showing (eg) $ exchange rate
fluctuations over the previous 24 hours. Requirements are:
- create 2D graphs in a format to be imported into QuarkXPress or
InDesign, so the likely format would be PDF or EPS.
- simplicity of scripting and customisation of graphs
- fast and preferably no huge memory overheads
I know that I could probably create such graphs directly in, say,
InDesign just using lines and frames and applying fills and strokes
etc. But I'd rather something more portable in case the client needs
to use Quark as well.
Obvious choices for me have been Illustrator and Smile ... the latter
being particularly attractive because it's free :-)
So I suppose I'm mainly wondering what others have used (is there any
Unix stuff I should consider?) and if there are any tips or other
things I should be thinking of?
--
Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
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