xmCHART 3.0.4 review

xmCHART is a very powerful charting plug-in for FileMaker Pro.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: X2max Software Buy Now Price: $99.00 Updated: 17 Nov 2005

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xmCHART is a very powerful charting plug-in for FileMaker Pro. It supports all basic chart types such as bars, lines, areas, scatters, pies, bubbles, high-Lows or Gantt charts. A comprehensive set of over 150 functions allows you to customize almost every parts of a chart such as scalings, axes or grids. To perfect a chart you can add a title, legend, labels or a background picture.
xmCHART is available in English and German.

Here are some key features of "xmCHART":
Chart Types
Bar chart (2D, 3D, stacked, proportional)
Scatter chart (1D, 2D)
Line chart (1D, 2D)
Area chart (1D, 2D)
Bubble chart (1D, 2D)
High-Low-Close-Open chart
Candlestick chart (horizontal, vertical)
Pie chart (2D, 3D, oval, arc, ring, explodes)
Radar graph (oval, polygonal, arc)
Polar graph (oval, polygonal, arc)
Gantt chart (2D, 3D, horizontal, vertical)
Box&Whisker plot (horizontal, vertical)
Histogram (horizontal, vertical)

Styles
Line style (shape, width, color, pattern)
Fill style (color, pattern)
Border style (shape, width, color, pattern)
Label style (font, style, background, location)
Symbol style (type, size, color, pattern)
Shadow style (offset, color, pattern)
Picture style (source, scaling)
Arrow style (width, color, pattern, head)

Axes
Axis line (width, color, pattern)
Axis label (font, style, background)
Major tick marks (length, width, color, pattern, location)
Minor tick marks (length, width, color, pattern, location)
Tick mark labels (font, style, background)
Axes can be run up/down, left/right

Scalings
Automatic
Linear
Percent
Logarithmic
Reverse scale direction

Data
Import chart data from file
Export chart data to file

Drop Lines
Drop lines to axes
Drop lines to reference point
Drop lines to reference line
Drop lines between series

Error Bars
Standard error
Standard deviation
Percent value
Constant value
List of values
1 and 2-dimensional (bars, rects, ellipses)

Curve Fitting
Linear
Polynomials
Power, exponential, logarithmic

Moving Averages
Moving average
Moving median
Exponential smoothing
User defined weights

Grids
Grid lines (width, color, pattern)
Grid stripes (color, pattern)
Fine grid
Grid frame

Title
Variable location, text, style, background
As an option, a subtitle can be added

Legend
Variable location, texts, styles, background
Variable legend symbols (type, size, position)

Layout
Precise positioning of several charts in a drawing
Overlaying graphs

Import
MacOS/X: PDF, PICT, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF
Windows: WMF, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF

Export
MacOS/X: PDF, PICT, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF
Windows: EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF

Backgrounds
Simple background (fill, border, shadow)
Background picture
Separate background for graph area

Graphics Primitives
Over 20 functions for drawing lines, arrows, symbols, texts, rects, round rects, ovals, arcs, polygons, bitmaps.
What's New:
support of the new FileMaker Pro 7 Plug-in API
drawing directly in a container field (no clipboard!)
3D pie charts, 3D bar charts, 3D Gantt charts
2D area charts
antialiasing and transparency
support of date and time
rotated texts (in any direction)
dashed line styles
variable line and border smoothing
save as PDF file (only Mac OS X)
unicode support
and many other improvements.

Limitations:
1 hour per session demo version.

What's New:
maintainance release and fixes some minor bugs.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
FileMaker Pro 7.