Rob Browning writes: > In other news, the upstream plotutils maintainer made the change I > requested to support swig. Now theoretically, I could start working > on the graphing stuff again. However, with all this talk of > HTML/SGML/XML reports, I'm wondering what the right approach is. I > chose plotutils because it has *really* broad support for postscript, > plotters, xfig, etc, and it can render to a file, to an Xwindow, to an > Xdrawable, etc. But I'm not sure how this would fit in with the > current "repoorts" work. If we're using XmHTML, it seems like we > might want to consider rendering to a .png or something (with alpha > channels we could even overlay graphs with transparency -- is that > useful?) and drop the images onto the "report". > > Thoughts? I prefer the plotutils approach for the reasons you list. HTML is not a layout language, and it sucks overall for handling really good report display. Sure, you can just turn everything into a GIF, but... Perry ----- %< -------------------------------------------- >% ------ The GnuCash / X-Accountant Mailing List To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe gnucash-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the body
