Re: How to force spreadsheet to create printable graph with same scale in X and Y?

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Langley
Hi Steve: It's one of the reasons why I prefer to use gnuplot, rather than Excel, for some plotting tasks. Gnuplot is dead easy to use and comes in different flavours for different operating systems: http://www.gnuplot.info/ -- Richard On 21-Jun-11, at 8:29 PM, Steve Lelievre wrote: Hi,

How to force spreadsheet to create printable graph with same scale in X and Y?

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Lelievre
Hi, I sometimes use a spreadsheet to calculate a series of X,Y points, and then use these points to create a scattergram chart. My problem is that whenever I do this, the chart appears on the screen as a rectangle. The X and Y dimensions aren't to the same scale. I have to set the gridline

Re: How to force spreadsheet to create printable graph with same scale in X and Y?

2011-06-21 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows
Even if you could get equalspacing, aspect ratios would still be a problem. My solution was in both my Excel and Open Office spreadsheets (see my website) to also print a square box with diagnols to show a V or an A. Then changing manually the X span of the chart until the V or A apex measured