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Vortex - Apr 03, 2011 8:42:50 pm PDT #16428 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

As we all know, WX is going belly up in a few weeks. Someone on one of my other threads wants to know if there's a way to threadsuck the old stuff. Any one know how?


le nubian - Apr 04, 2011 1:06:45 am PDT #16429 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Vortex,

fyi, the shutdown is in 11 days. We don't have weeks now.

The only info I know is this and I think this is for admins (of the forums) only:

[link]


Typo Boy - Apr 04, 2011 8:34:09 pm PDT #16430 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

If I insert a "Microsoft Graph" object in Publisher 2003, does that produce a higher resolution graph than Excel? If not, is there free charting/graphing software that will produce high resolution graph/charts? (Pie chart, and smoothed line graph.) (Pasting an Excel Chart into publisher still produces a low graphic quality object.)


§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 6:21:02 am PDT #16431 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does anyone know of any wireframe tools? I just use Visio, but someone asked at work, and I was wondering what's out there on the market.


amych - Apr 05, 2011 6:41:46 am PDT #16432 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Does anyone know of any wireframe tools?

I've always just used whatever vector program I have on hand - Visio, Illustrator, OmniGraffle. I've also played around with doing quickies online with Mockingbird ( [link] ), which is dead simple and makes sharing really easy; I'm not sure I'd want to use it for any really big projects. Never been interested in paying enterprisey prices for a dedicated tool, but then I tend to use wireframes more as a sketching phase than a must-document-every-step-of-every-interaction thing.


Typo Boy - Apr 05, 2011 7:42:50 am PDT #16433 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

To rephrase my question: I need simple graphing software (Pie charts, line charts xy scatter, nothing that fancy) that can export high resolution images (TIF would be ideal but png or non-lossy Jpegs would be fine). Price cheap to free. My google fu seems weak in this area.


NoiseDesign - Apr 05, 2011 8:52:32 am PDT #16434 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

ita, I've used OmniGraffle, but it is Mac OS and iOS only.


Rick - Apr 05, 2011 12:13:09 pm PDT #16435 of 25501

To rephrase my question: I need simple graphing software (Pie charts, line charts xy scatter, nothing that fancy) that can export high resolution images (TIF would be ideal but png or non-lossy Jpegs would be fine). Price cheap to free.

You can do virtually any type of statistical graphics with the free R package [link] but the interface is not for the faint of heart.


§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 12:16:58 pm PDT #16436 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks for the suggestions. I get the impression she'll have to go forward with Visio for now.


Typo Boy - Apr 05, 2011 12:24:06 pm PDT #16437 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Under too tight a dealine for a learning curve right now. I have two Excel charts I need to recreate at high resolution for publication. One workbook, one sheet two small data sets, too fairly simple graphs, though with specific requirements, (B&W, high resolution, will be printed small "small" unspecified, but say a fifth to a third of a book page.) Then again. free or cheap, high resolution, and user friendly is asking for a lot. The "pick two" rule. I guess the next step is: find someone with decent graphing software and beg them to redo my two Excel charts for me.