Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Kern
John Hunter wrote: Although it is a free and open source package, I think that the image quality and support is on par with if not superior to what you find in many commercial solutions. Amen to that. The ChartDirector demos looked very ugly to my eye. matplotlib plots usually look quite good with

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-14 Thread John Hunter
> "Francis" == Francis Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francis> PyX might also be interesting, depending on your needs. While pyx is a very nice package, it is probably not a good choice for web app developers simply because it generates postscript, which is not very browser friendly.

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-14 Thread Francis Girard
Le lundi 14 Février 2005 11:02, David Fraser a écrit : > Erik Johnson wrote: > > I am wanting to generate dynamic graphs for our website and would > > rather not invest the time in developing the code to draw these starting > > from graphics primitives. I am looking for something that is... "fa

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-14 Thread David Fraser
Erik Johnson wrote: I am wanting to generate dynamic graphs for our website and would rather not invest the time in developing the code to draw these starting from graphics primitives. I am looking for something that is... "fairly robust" but our needs are relatively modest: X-Y scatter plots w

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-13 Thread John J. Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >If you're generating lots of graphs programatically, eg. on a web > >server, grace is not what you want. Yes, it has a command language, > >but IIRC it depends on X11, and windows even pop up as it runs in > >batch mode. Bleh. > > I don't understand what you're talk

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-12 Thread 18k11tm001
>If you're generating lots of graphs programatically, eg. on a web >server, grace is not what you want. Yes, it has a command language, >but IIRC it depends on X11, and windows even pop up as it runs in >batch mode. Bleh. I don't understand what you're talking about. I've been using GRACE in bat

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-12 Thread Francis Gadenne
Erik Johnson wrote: I am wanting to generate dynamic graphs for our website and ... >I am aware of ChartDirector (http://www.advsofteng.com/ ) which I have used ChartDirector extensively as an activeX (not from python though). We found the API to be well-though and clean. The tool is definitely wor

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-12 Thread John J. Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Check out GRACE. It's not specifically designed for Python, but I've > been using with Python for a couple of years or more. I'm very happy > with it, and it's free. It works both interactively and in batch mode. > Do a google on GRACE. If you're generating lots of gra

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-12 Thread 18k11tm001
Check out GRACE. It's not specifically designed for Python, but I've been using with Python for a couple of years or more. I'm very happy with it, and it's free. It works both interactively and in batch mode. Do a google on GRACE. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-12 Thread Vincent Wehren
Erik Johnson wrote: I am aware of ChartDirector (http://www.advsofteng.com/ ) which explicitly supports python and seems to be about the right level of sophistication. I don't really know of any other packages in this space, do you? I am seeking feedback and reccomendations from people who have

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-12 Thread Erik Johnson
Thank you both for your input. I will check them out. :) -ej -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-11 Thread Larry Bates
ReportLab has pretty good Graphics Module. About the only thing it needs is Python Imaging Library (which you would probably want anyway). Larry Bates Erik Johnson wrote: I am wanting to generate dynamic graphs for our website and would rather not invest the time in developing the code to draw

Commerical graphing packages?

2005-02-11 Thread Erik Johnson
I am wanting to generate dynamic graphs for our website and would rather not invest the time in developing the code to draw these starting from graphics primitives. I am looking for something that is... "fairly robust" but our needs are relatively modest: X-Y scatter plots w/ data point symbol