Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module
John Nagle
nagle at animats.com
Wed Sep 16 00:50:13 EDT 2009
Ethan Furman wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>>
>> http://home.gna.org/pychart/doc/introduction.html
>>
>> Tried PyChart. Set up for PNG file format. Got the error
>> "Exception: Ghostscript not found." This thing just creates
>> PostScript, then pumps it through GhostScript (anybody remember that?)
>> to get other formats. And does the documentation say that? Only
>> in the FAQ section. Grrr.
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be any pure Python chart module at all.
>> Just wrappers.
>>
>> John Nagle
>
> http://home.gna.org/pychart/doc/module-theme.html
>
>
>
> Looks like it will directly create pdf files, not sure if that will for
> you.
>
> Hope this helps.
Thanks. More usefully, the program will generate SVG output.
That I can use. There are some bugs; the SVG text sizes are
about 2x too big. But I can fix that.
John Nagle
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