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Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by polshaw »

ChiperSoft wrote: post #44
polshaw wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why do people still insist on doing this? HTTP requests. 'silly font+glyph combo' is the vector version of sprites. And it's also nice to be able to change the colour of your monochrome vector graphics.

Except that this font doesn't appear to work on the web, it's only for use in software that supports higher typography features, such as Adobe applications.

In the part i was replying to the parent was not referring to this font specifically, but the font-graphics concept.

    >my problem lies more with the paradigm than this particular font

Re: Font that creates charts

#52

Post by sp332 »

ChiperSoft wrote: post #44
polshaw wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why do people still insist on doing this? HTTP requests. 'silly font+glyph combo' is the vector version of sprites. And it's also nice to be able to change the colour of your monochrome vector graphics.

Except that this font doesn't appear to work on the web, it's only for use in software that supports higher typography features, such as Adobe applications.

Even browsers support have supported alternate font styles for years now. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/11/firefox-4-font-feature-supp...

Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by kmfrk »

stephencanon wrote: post #10

This is a really cute hack. That said, the pricing is absurd. There are numerous data analysis and graphing programs that produce better looking, more customizable charts and graphs with a simpler UI, most of which cost significantly less than $129 despite being much more powerful.

Could you list some of these?

Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by stephencanon »

kmfrk wrote: post #54
stephencanon wrote: post #10

This is a really cute hack. That said, the pricing is absurd. There are numerous data analysis and graphing programs that produce better looking, more customizable charts and graphs with a simpler UI, most of which cost significantly less than $129 despite being much more powerful.

Could you list some of these?

DataGraph (http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataGraph/) is my personal favorite.

The examples on the website don't necessarily do the tool justice, but it produces really beautiful output if you take the time to learn to use it, produces good output even if you don't, scales well to huge data sets, and the guy who writes it is incredibly sensitive to user feedback; when I've requested features, they've usually been available in a new beta inside of two days.

Re: Font that creates charts

#56

Post by jgamman »

sp332 wrote: post #16
stephencanon wrote: post #10

This is a really cute hack. That said, the pricing is absurd. There are numerous data analysis and graphing programs that produce better looking, more customizable charts and graphs with a simpler UI, most of which cost significantly less than $129 despite being much more powerful.

It's not really about producing charts, it's about putting charts where you normally couldn't. World primary energy use by %: Oil 34.77, Coal 29.36, NG 23.76, Nuke 5.47, Hydro 6.63 █▇▅▁▂

how did you do that?

Re: Font that creates charts

#57

Post by duaneb »

I thought this was really cool, until I saw that it cost $129.... Realistically, who would buy this? I'm assuming that because it is proprietary, it can not be used on the Internet, and if you don't have to cater to arbitrary OSes, why not use grh software?

Re: Font that creates charts

#58

Post by roryokane »

jgamman wrote: post #56
sp332 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not really about producing charts, it's about putting charts where you normally couldn't. World primary energy use by %: Oil 34.77, Coal 29.36, NG 23.76, Nuke 5.47, Hydro 6.63 █▇▅▁▂

how did you do that?

The black rectangles are just Unicode characters – for example, “▅” is character U+2585 LOWER FIVE EIGHTHS BLOCK. sp332 probably either used https://github.com/holman/spark or manually copied and pasted those characters.

Re: Font that creates charts

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Post by ThePherocity »

jgamman wrote: post #56
sp332 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not really about producing charts, it's about putting charts where you normally couldn't. World primary energy use by %: Oil 34.77, Coal 29.36, NG 23.76, Nuke 5.47, Hydro 6.63 █▇▅▁▂

how did you do that?

That's how we used to make GUIs. Miss those days.
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