Re: Suggestions for scripted graphing
Re: Suggestions for scripted graphing
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for scripted graphing
- From: Dave Balderstone <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:55:44 -0600
On 11-Jun-05, at 6:43 PM, Tim Mansour wrote:
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?
We use a script that pulls the data out of Excel and creates line
graphs in Illustrator (livestock and grain prices, currency rates,
exactly what you're talking about). I needed it in a hurry when we
were switching from Xpress to InDesign, so I hired the work out
rather than write it myself. Because of that, I'm unable to post code
but the scripter I hired is a regular here...
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