On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:01:04PM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:09:35PM +0100, Ragnar Beer wrote:
You mean GDChart can also produce vector images? That would be cool! GDChart's documentation is a bit shortish ... Perhaps I should take the painful way and look a the source.
Reportlab can generate PDF, postscript, and bitmaps from text, vector graphics, bitmap images, whatever ... it's open-source and it's python, too. Demo at http://www.reportlab.com/cgi-bin/graphics_demo.cgi
Note that the bitmap rendering option needs to be downloaded separately at the "addons" section of the site.
Another nice vector-graphics option for python is sping, formerly known as piddle: http://piddle.sourceforge.net
And another option is ploticus (note this is NOT plplot) ploticus.sourceforge.net. Can produce png, jpeg, SVG, and postscript. Especially well suited for repetitive tasks, as it uses a non-procedural template language to define charts, and the data can be sourced from a file or standard input. Not python, but easy to invoke via os.system. Very good and extensive documentation. jim penny