Re: Gnumeric & graphing

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

Sorry if I missed previous responses to this post, but I don't think I
saw any.

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, January Weiner 3 wrote:

> almost exactly a year ago I have posted a similar question -- how can you
> produce advanced graphs using gnumeric?  Guppi works nice, but has a lot of
> capabilities not used by gnumeric.  A year ago, Jody Goldberg wrote:
>
>       "The current state of graphs provides the framework to build in,
>       but barely scratches the surface of guppi's abilities.  More will
>       be added shortly."
>
> Has anything changed in that field?

Yes.  At present the version of gnumeric that is under active
development is unable to produce any graphs.  For the "old-style"
1.0.X series, the situation is as Jody described it, a few graph types
are available via Guppi at a sort of "proof of concept" level.

> Or, maybe, there is a way to bind gnuplot with gnumeric?

This has occurred to me too, but I haven't yet tried to code it. It
may be worth exploring.

Gnumeric is in most ways an excellent, even superior, alternative to
MS Excel (and StarOffice/OpenOffice).  The one major lack, as I see
it, is the capacity to produce graphs/charts, which is a rather
essential aspect of a spreadsheet program from the standpoint of many
users, but which has apparently been given short shrift in gnumeric
development.

Allin Cottrell.