Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-31 Thread Edmund Lian
Hi All, Sean True of WebReply emailed me to tell me of a Python port of JpGraph (http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/), to be found at http://metagram.webreply.com/ Sean says that the port is not completely 100% functional, but is usable. So far, this is the closest I've seen to something like ChartDi

Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Stefan Kuzminski
This is a python centric graphing package, not really focused on charts but nice and clean.. http://biggles.sourceforge.net/ I have also used gnuplot with the python binding with some success. ReportLab works as well as ChartFX ( commercial product ). I am doing this right now for a client and

RE: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Karl Putland
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:27, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > Karl Putland wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 23:39, Edmund Lian wrote: > > > Has anybody had any experience generating business-style > > charts on-the-fly > > > from within Webware? If so, what did you use? I see a few > > packages like >

RE: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Mail List
Haven't looked in on ReportLab in a while, but if you can generate SVG and the graph style ( look ) meets your needs, then transformation to GIF / PNG is not very difficult. I can offer help in the form of code ways to do it for something like this. I'm kinda interested in it myself ... but only

RE: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Karl Putland wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 23:39, Edmund Lian wrote: > > Has anybody had any experience generating business-style > charts on-the-fly > > from within Webware? If so, what did you use? I see a few > packages like > > Dislin, GNUPlot, etc., but before messing around, I thought >

Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Karl Putland
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 23:39, Edmund Lian wrote: > Has anybody had any experience generating business-style charts on-the-fly > from within Webware? If so, what did you use? I see a few packages like > Dislin, GNUPlot, etc., but before messing around, I thought I should ask > for experiences. This

Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Edmund Lian
On 07/30/2002 10:18:10 AM Stephan Diehl wrote: >Eventually, ReportLab (PDF generation on the fly) might do what you want. >They are even working on a SVG engine. I'm not sure about this. What I want to do is generate graphs for display on a webpage. For now, it seems easier to use Python to gene

RE: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Edmund Lian wrote: > On 07/30/2002 08:31:25 AM Bill Eldridge wrote: > > >I sent an e-mail on pygd for graphics a few months ago, but I don't > >know if it does business charts: > > Thanks, I'll take a look at it. The closest thing I've found to an > easy-to-use, well documented package so far is

Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Bill Eldridge
See: http://webware.colorstudy.net/twiki/bin/view/Webware/PdfCreationWithReportLab001 for some good info on this. Stephan Diehl wrote: > Eventually, ReportLab (PDF generation on the fly) might do what you want. > They are even working on a SVG engine. > > stephan > -- Bill Eldridge Radio

Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Stephan Diehl
Eventually, ReportLab (PDF generation on the fly) might do what you want. They are even working on a SVG engine. stephan On Tuesday 30 July 2002 16:02, you wrote: > On 07/30/2002 08:31:25 AM Bill Eldridge wrote: > >I sent an e-mail on pygd for graphics a few months ago, but I don't > >know if

Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Edmund Lian
On 07/30/2002 08:31:25 AM Bill Eldridge wrote: >I sent an e-mail on pygd for graphics a few months ago, but I don't >know if it does business charts: Thanks, I'll take a look at it. The closest thing I've found to an easy-to-use, well documented package so far is ChartDirector ( http://www.advso

Re: [Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-30 Thread Bill Eldridge
Edmund Lian wrote: > Has anybody had any experience generating business-style charts on-the-fly > from within Webware? If so, what did you use? I see a few packages like > Dislin, GNUPlot, etc., but before messing around, I thought I should ask > for experiences. This topic area probably needs to

[Webware-discuss] Chart generation

2002-07-29 Thread Edmund Lian
Has anybody had any experience generating business-style charts on-the-fly from within Webware? If so, what did you use? I see a few packages like Dislin, GNUPlot, etc., but before messing around, I thought I should ask for experiences. This topic area probably needs to be added to the Wiki; I can