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centerchannel68 · Feb 25, 2007, 09:54 PM

Any ideas?

Oneota · Feb 25, 2007, 10:02 PM

Um....Excel, Keynote, AppleWorks. Take your pick.

Brass · 10:10 PM

Any spreadsheet application (of which MS Excel is the most popular).

Also, Pages (word processor) and Keynote (presentation) both have a decent charting tool built in. It includes pretty 3D versions.

Or, have a look at OmniGraffle. It's a general charting application, and there's a free version.

(edit) On second thoughts, I don't think OmniGraffle does this sort of charing, but I could be wrong.

Doofy · Feb 25, 2007, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Brass

Or, have a look at OmniGraffle. It's a general charting application, and there's a free version.

(edit) On second thoughts, I don't think OmniGraffle does this sort of charing, but I could be wrong.

Nope, it doesn't. Just Visio style stuff.

Rob, Excel's your best bet.

centerchannel68 · Feb 25, 2007, 10:15 PM

Damnit. I hate excel. It's too complicated, and I never bothered learning how to use it since it's so boring. ARgh. Now I have to install office, since I don't have keynote.

centerchannel68 · Feb 25, 2007, 10:22 PM

Screw it, I guess I'm going to try to acquire Keynote from a friend. I hate excel. To me it represents everything wrong with the world.

bstone · Feb 26, 2007, 12:52 AM

OpenOffice? Try NeoOffice, the OS X port.

Brass · Feb 26, 2007, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by centerchannel68

Screw it, I guess I'm going to try to acquire Keynote from a friend. I hate excel. To me it represents everything wrong with the world.

Well if you hate office, you'll love Kenote and Pages. Keynote is (according to most users) far better than PowerPoint. Pages is an excellent word processor as well. Not as feature rich as word, but somewhat easier to use (certainly better at page layout, in some respects). Both Pages and Keynote have a very good charting tool built in.

centerchannel68 · Feb 26, 2007, 10:38 PM

Yeah, I like Keynote, I just don't have it.

monkeybrain · Feb 26, 2007, 10:57 PM

Pages is ok, to call it excellent is a bit much I think though. The thing can bog down so easily if you're doing even simple page layout, and it crashed on me the other day, loosing my work - at least Word autosaves a backup.

residentEvil · Feb 27, 2007, 09:16 AM

does google spreadsheets do graphs/charts?

Mithras · Feb 27, 2007, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by residentEvil

does google spreadsheets do graphs/charts?

Not yet, though there are indications that it's coming.

residentEvil · Feb 27, 2007, 10:40 AM

ah, okay then. thought that might be a choice too.

Mithras · Feb 27, 2007, 11:17 AM

Isn't this an Applications question?
Anyway, if you really want to do something spiffy, Igor Pro has a fully-functional demo.

Gossamer · Feb 27, 2007, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by bstone

OpenOffice? Try NeoOffice, the OS X port.

Seconded. It's just like Excel, except it's Intel native (and free, not that that matters). There's nothing really to "learn," you just have a few columns of numbers and hit the Chart button, it does most of it for you. Excel is a really great tool for some of the engineering stuff i have to do. Typing an equation once and just dragging it down 20 rows is incredibly convenient.

Mediaman_12 · Feb 27, 2007, 05:13 PM

Here is a curve-ball: Do you have Illustrator installed?
If so then that has very good and often overlooked 'Graphs' tool built right in. It does Bar Charts, Pie Charts, and is quite flexible, Here is a tutorial for making more interesting ones.

- - e r i k - - · Feb 27, 2007, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by Mediaman_12

Here is a curve-ball: Do you have Illustrator installed?
If so then that has very good and often overlooked 'Graphs' tool built right in. It does Bar Charts, Pie Charts, and is quite flexible, Here is a tutorial for making more interesting ones.

Good call. That's been around since Illustrator 5 IIRC.

Anyway, my vote also goes for Keynote. Awesome looking graphs easy.

Judge_Fire · 02:44 AM

Oops, hit reply in wrong thread

But since I'm here I'll recommend handmade HTML and CSS for graphs - fun, free and filled with procrastinative goodness

Or multiple empty Stickies notes placed side by side, measured their relative width/height in pixels using xScope on top of a nice background image and then into a screen grab.

Or, uh, Keynote.

Brass · Feb 28, 2007, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

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Or multiple empty Stickies notes placed side by side, measured their relative width/height in pixels using xScope on top of a nice background image and then into a screen grab.

WINNER!!!