We are attempting to automate several of our report processes, one of which includes some standard graphing of data. As such we are evaluating some different ways to accomplish this. The are a couple of ways were are looking at, one is the GD Module. I didn't see anything in the documentation about resolution. We need the resulting graphs to be print quality (300 DPI), does GD allow for this?

It appears as though you can save the graphs to a file for later retrieval, which seems handy. Has anyone been successful at this?

Does anyone have a sample of graph that they generated from GD they'd be willing to share for further review?

FYI - other methods being looked at, dumping out XML data from the database and feeding to a mac graphing program, and a JAVA API.

In reply to gd module ouput examples by Anonymous Monk

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