Mark Oehlschlager Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Occasionally, I have the need to produce data graphs for business, scientific or financial reports. When it comes to producing tables, I know that the forthcoming Publisher will have a table making capability, but for those who need to produce attractive data graphs for scientific and financial reports, would Affinity consider adding this capability to Affinity Designer? In the meantime, can anyone recommend a tool and a workflow for producing attractive and professional looking data graphs including but not limited to bar charts, pie charts, and scatter graphs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 I’d use an actual tool for data visualization. If I’m not mistaken, MicroStrategy has a free Desktop product you may consider for this scenario. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 @Mithferion Thanks for the referral. I've discovered that for standard graphs, I can use Apple's Pages or Numbers apps to generate fairly clean, attractive graphs that I can then copy as a PDF graphic, paste into AF Designer, and then customize. It's a great fallback option. As long as I keep the Pages/Numbers source file, I can update the graph if my client supplies me with new data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steps Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 (edited) I think it would be nice to have a easy chart generator where you can enter a chart type and some data for it. The result can be something like the thing that was generated in this tutorial video by hand. The generator gives as output the layers and you can refine it from there to your needs. EDIT: I quicky researched this and here is a free online service that does basicly what I would like to see integrated into Designer. Of course the charts there are not so pretty as the nice thing that guy in the YouTube video build up, but I think you get the idea. Edited December 30, 2018 by Steps added link to online service Quote Windows 10 Pro x64 (1903). Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz, 32 GB memory, NVidia RTX 2080 Affinity Photo 1.7.2.471, Affinity Designer 1.7.2.471, Affinity Publisher 1.7.2.471 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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