Re: Server side chart/graph library?
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:10:43PM +, J?r?me Et?v? wrote: Yep, charting is what I need (as I don't really feel rolling my own charting lib on top of any low level one :) ). I rolled my own, which I really should get round to releasing one day. It produces PostScript, which can then be turned into other formats using gv, imagemagick etc. It handles line charts, bar charts (both with error bars), multiple data sets per chart, pies, probably some other stuff I've forgotten. -- David Cantrell Professor of Unvironmental Science University of Human Progress
Server side chart/graph library?
Hi! Can you recommend any good server side Perl or Perl-bound graph/chart plotting library. I've got experience with gd but I remember struggling with unicode and antialiasing and there's been no new version since 2007. I'm wondering if anything more modern is around. Cheers! Jerome. -- Jerome Eteve. http://libsquare.net
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:54:39AM +, J??r??me Et??v?? wrote: I've got experience with gd but I remember struggling with unicode and antialiasing and there's been no new version since 2007. I'm wondering if anything more modern is around. Imager does many of the same things as GD but more niftily. R
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
Roger Burton West wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:54:39AM +, J??r??me Et??v?? wrote: Unicode woes abound :-/ I've got experience with gd but I remember struggling with unicode and antialiasing and there's been no new version since 2007. I'm wondering if anything more modern is around. Imager does many of the same things as GD but more niftily. There's also Image::Imlib2. I think when I was weighing those two up a few years ago I ended up going with Imager, but I can't now remember why. Matt
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
On 6 Jan 2011, at 12:02, Roger Burton West wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:54:39AM +, J??r??me Et??v?? wrote: I've got experience with gd but I remember struggling with unicode and antialiasing and there's been no new version since 2007. I'm wondering if anything more modern is around. Imager does many of the same things as GD but more niftily. R I used to quite like GD - but now I've just read the Imager::Cookbook. Chris.
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
I'm a bit confused GD (and all the others mentioned) are a bit low level for charting/graphing. I've used Chart (which builds on top of GD) in the past, but have not played with this stuff for a few years. However could the OP confirm if he is after a charting solution, or something that is lower level image manipulation. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham nigel.methering...@intechnology.com ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
Hi, Yep, charting is what I need (as I don't really feel rolling my own charting lib on top of any low level one :) ). J. On 6 January 2011 12:33, Nigel Metheringham nigel.methering...@dev.intechnology.co.uk wrote: I'm a bit confused GD (and all the others mentioned) are a bit low level for charting/graphing. I've used Chart (which builds on top of GD) in the past, but have not played with this stuff for a few years. However could the OP confirm if he is after a charting solution, or something that is lower level image manipulation. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham nigel.methering...@intechnology.com ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Jerome Eteve. http://libsquare.net
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:10 +, Jérôme Etévé wrote: Yep, charting is what I need (as I don't really feel rolling my own charting lib on top of any low level one :) ). I find GD::Graph works well for me.
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
On 6 January 2011 13:33, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:10 +, Jérôme Etévé wrote: Yep, charting is what I need (as I don't really feel rolling my own charting lib on top of any low level one :) ). Not sure exactly what your after.. but... SVG::TT::Graph produces SVG files ( http://leo.cuckoo.org/projects/SVG-TT-Graph/ - examples), you can then use http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ to convert to .png/pdf etc if you like. Or use Google's Graph API: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ HTH Leo
Re: Server side chart/graph library?
On Thursday 06 January 2011 13:45:12 Leo Lapworth wrote: Or use Google's Graph API: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ This, via URI::GoogleChart, can make things dead simple, e.g.: use URI::GoogleChart; my $chart_uri = URI::GoogleChart-new(lines, 300, 100, data = [45, 80, 55, 68], ); print qq[img src=$chart_uri ... /]; Flot (http://code.google.com/p/flot/) is a quite nice Javascript solution, if you're happy to shove data to the client and let it handle rendering the graph. For graphs actually generated on the server as an image and sent to the client, I've used GD::Graph in the past, and it's done the trick. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/identicawww.lyricsbadger.co.uk Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)
