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Custom Charts w/ Perl and GD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-a-pac-man-pie-chart-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article describes techniques you can use to create new levels of usefulness in your dynamically generated charts with Perl and GD. Cook up some automatically generated graphs for your organizational meetings or live enterprise directory data. Annotate the charts with readable text that delivers more information than the standard pie chart. Using the power of GD and Perl, you can link various data and images together to create sophisticated charts that will help bring visual interest to your applications."

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  1. Re:Don't get it.. by Riverman5 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I think the business interests involved in this want to see to it that you're modded down.

    Yeah this GD/Perl stuff is old news, I use flash for charts, fusion charts.