[clug] Postscript Graphing Library for programming

Jacinta Richardson jarich at perltraining.com.au
Mon Jun 19 02:19:37 GMT 2006


Paul Wayper wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I thought I'd put out a request to the Lazyweb for information about
> drawing graphs (bar charts, line charts, etc) in a program (e.g. in
> Perl) that can be output directly to a printer.  I'm trying to graph
> information that has a lot more statistical resolution than the 65,536
> data rows that OpenOffice Calc seems to be limited to.  My current
> program uses the GD::Graph library, which is fine if you want to output
> a PNG at a large resolution, load it into GIMP, scale it to the page and
> print it

Have you tried using Image::Magick to scale it to the page?  I've used it to
resize images without problems.

All the best,

	J

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