in reply to making a scientific chart
There's also R, which can produce a number of nifty diagrams — see Graphical procedures for an introduction (not exhaustive, as much functionality comes via individual packages / object types). Its primary focus is on statistics, but it provides a number of rather generic plotting facilities which may be used for many other purposes as well. It supports various output formats (Device drivers), allows for custom arrangement of multiple figures, has low-level drawing commands, etc.
Statistics::R is a Perl wrapper around the R interpreter (though I'm not sure how well it works under Windows...).
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