in reply to Graph generation using MS Excel

If the desired endpoint is a webpage GD::Graph is an easy and fast way to generate png graphs. You can use GD::Graph::Map to map hotpoints and you can get the GD binary as a ppm from ActiveState. Using GD::Grpah is way simpler as well as being a lot faster.

cheers

tachyon

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Re^2: Graph generation using MS Excel
by Nalina (Monk) on Jul 06, 2004 at 05:31 UTC
    Hi,

    Thanks for the reply.

    I could not install GD::Graph & GD::Graph::Map on windows machine.

    Can I install it using ppm. If so please give me the url to do it.

    Thanks & Regards

    Nalina
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      Unlike GD itself (which need compilation) these modules are pure perl so will install without any issues on Win32. See A Guide to Installing Modules, get nmake, get the tarballs from CPAN, perl Makefile.PL && nmake && nmake test && nmake install. There is more to life that what comes as a PPM. This is some of it.....

      cheers

      tachyon

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        Hi,

        Yes I installed it using nmake utility.

        I am able to run the sample scripts given. But the graph area in that png file is too small. Is there any way to increase the plot area?

        Also the x-axis values in my graph are dates in 'dd/mm/yyyy' format. How do I make these dates appear vertically? Like in Excel we do it as shown 
        $AgeChart->Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary)->TickLabels->{Orientation} = xl
+Upward;

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        Thanks and Regards

        Nalina
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