David Duffy wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > But Excel CAN produce simple scatter plots or bar charts. It is just that
> > the defaults are so horrible. With a lot of tweaking you can make them
>
> > My problem is cost. I want to get everyone in my department to have the
> > facility to produce reasonable charts that have a common style. I do all
>
> Perhaps it is would be easier for people to quickly dump a CSV file into
> the Win32 version of R or Gnuplot. R really does do nice graphics,
> which can go back into Word/Powerpoint etc as JPEGs (with minimal
> compression).
What about GIF/PNG? For graphics with few colors and sharp edges these
forms - run-length-encoded and then compressed using a reeated-strings
algorithm - are usually more compact, and are loss-free. However, as I
recall, they do not resize as well as JPEGS.
With small numbers of data, in Windows, the WMF (Windows Metafile) is
ideal - it is portable between all major applications, and as it stores
the picture as curves, it is infinitely scalable.
Both of these can be clipboarded.
-Robert Dawson
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