Hi VoidNT, I'm not aware of any additional options the API offers regarding text format. Maybe a text wrapping enhancement could be suggested to the API team?
For the time being, I would try to simplify the labels as much as possible. Some of the labels are so long I'm spending more time trying to figure out what grouping of data I'm looking at. I don't know if I'd use pie charts either - some even argue that pie charts limited in usefulness. (google Edward Tufte, Stephen Few, or even Jorge Camoes) Personally, I'd simplify all the wording, and switch to a horizontal bar chart (for label readability) On Nov 23, 10:28 am, VoidNT <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > need your advice. I'm working on project which is going to have a > dashboard using Google Visualizations API. It should be a highly > customizable functionality with user enjoying a lot of freedom with > choosing what data he wants to visualize. > > We stuck on problem with long labels. Many labels in our > visualizations are going to be considerably long (50 symbols and > more). On many visualizations these labels get obscured. If we allow > visualization to choose font size automatically the labels can get > really small or don't appear at all; if we set a specific font size > the labels do not fit and get cut. We truncate labels which are more > than 20 characters long, but there's no way to show full labels in > tooltip, only the same truncated ones. In any case, it looks horrible. > > We thought we could solve most of such problems by allowing user to > view a bigger version of the chart, but the problem remains even on > big ones. > > For > example:http://i46.tinypic.com/1z21v9y.pnghttp://i47.tinypic.com/r74tcj.pnghttp://i45.tinypic.com/a24474.png > > On the first picture the legend fits (almost) by choosing proper > visualization size and font size, but look how much white space > remains - it could be much more compact, but we were not able to do > so. > > Any solutions how to handle this problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en.
