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angelcervera
Asked: 2011-11-27 02:58:13 +0800 CST

Charts graphics software

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I need to do a presentation of a product with charts (Pie and Bar charts).

I use LibreOffice for documentation, but charts are not very beautiful.

Someone could recommend any software to generate charts ?

It's very important that charts will be beautiful, with 3D effect, gradients, etc.

Thanks

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3 Answers

  1. R has very good charting capabilities (click here for a gallery of examples with sources).

    It is free and installable from the repositories. The main package is r-base, several additional packages are also available.

    Note that R is not a spreadsheet. It is a programming environment -- a bit of work is necessary to obtain what you want. There are, however, several tutorials (this and this for pies).

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  2. I recently discovered gnuplot is not as difficult as I thought. New version can output in HTML5. As per piecharts try circles. http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.4/circles.html

    Not sure about the 3D effects but you can output it as an SVG and have a play around with an vector graphics editor like inkscape.

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  3. Make sure you tried mathgl too. It's specifically made for nice 3D charts.

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