Fellow Shadow Watchers,
My preferred software for
dial design has always been Adobe Illustrator. By no means 'budget' and
painful to learn in the initial stages but well worthwhile in the long
run. However earlier versions of AI struggled a bit to cope with things
like curved Equation of Time graphs without some manual input.
On recently upgrading to Illustrator CS3 suddenly the *most complex*
EofT graphs, or indeed any line drawing, is beautifully and accurately
curved with a minimum of keystrokes via <OBJECT> <ENVELOPE DISTORT>
<MAKE WITH WARP> then setting one of many possible curve types and
entering a percentage. Bezier numerals and text skew/distort to fit the
re-shaped graph if desired when the result looks very slick..
The result is a perfect graph fitting the available space accurately.
Now if I'd just had this 15 years ago!!
Saveable in PDF format as a 'service' perhaps??
Tony Moss
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