Royalty Free PDF Chart Creator Dynamic Link Library (DLL)

[UtilityWarrior]

If you want to create bar charts, pie charts, line charts or area
charts as PDFs royalty free then this Dynamic Link Library (DLL) is
for you.

The PDF Chart Creator DLL gives you full control over all aspects of
the chart including page size, colors, axes, titles, labels,
positioning, legends etc. All you have to do is supply the data and
optionally change the default settings and the chart automatically
adapts to fit the page based on your settings.

Because the charts are produced as PDF they are scalable and
resolution independent so they can be viewed and zoomed without any
"blockyness" or "jaggies" appearing. They also look great printed even
at very high printer resolutions.

You may be surprised at how small the file size of each PDF Chart
Creator document is (typically around 3Kb) - this is because the PDF
Chart Creator DLL has been carefully written so that it optimizes the
output to produce extremely small PDF file sizes.

Why not take a look at http://www.UtilityWarrior.com/PDF-Chart-Creator-Examples.htm
which has an example of every chart type and style currently
available.

Now supports the automatic calculation and display of various
numerical analyses including "line of best fit" (which uses linear
regression) and "moving average".

For full details and to download the DLL please visit
http://www.UtilityWarrior.com/PDF-Chart-Creator-Dynamic-Link-Library.htm
- this is free to download and try and no details are required in
order to access the ZIP file.

Best regards,
The Utility Warrior Team

[mikeporter]

A more flexible solution is PDFCreator. It works as a printer driver and so requires no special code to use. You simply print to it. I have used it for years and it just works.

Mike...

[rolfk]

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@mikeporter wrote:
A more flexible solution is PDFCreator. It works as a printer driver and so requires no special code to use. You simply print to it. I have used it for years and it just works.

Mike...

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Mike, while I have used similar tools (Amyuni PDF Converter) to capture LabVIEW front panels formated as some customer test report directly, the DLL that is mentioned in the original post does have some value. It would allow extending the report generation Toolkit with another method of directly creating PDF files from that. I have at some point tried to do that and actually found several DLL implemented PDF libraries to create such documents, but this was put aside since there was more important work to do.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Message Edited by rolfk on 06-25-2007 10:24 AM

[UtilityWarrior]

On Jun 25, 9:40 am, rolfk <x...@no.email> wrote:
> mikeporter wrote:A more flexible solution is <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/" target="_blank">PDFCreator</a>. It works as a printer driver and so requires no special code to use. You simply print to it. I have used it for years and it just works. Mike...
>
Hi, one problem with PDFCreator is the fact that you (and your
clients) must install it and use it whereas our PDF Chart Creator DLL
is included within LabVIEW and it can generated graphs quickly without
having to go through a "print" process.

Another benefit includes the fact that it automatically adapts to any
page size (eg landscape or portrait, or any custom size) without any
programming changes required (other than telling it what dimensions to
use of course).

It does also produce smaller file size PDFs than could be produced
with a "PDF printer" - see http://www.utilitywarrior.com/PDF-Chart-Creator-Examples.htm
for proof - a complex curved area graph with a line of best fit is
just 4.6Kb - a bar chart just 2.2Kb - and they look pretty good too
(IMHO - but then I would say that).

We actually have another product which will convert WMF/EMFs into
native PDFs so reports that are produced are generally at least half
the size of that produced with "PDF printers" and it's much quicker as
well - you may, or not, have heard of our Image to PDF DLL utility -
see http://www.utilitywarrior.com/Image-to-PDF.htm

Best regards,
Adrian Nelson

[rolfk]

Utility Warrior,

I can understand your excitement about your PDF library but the size of the resulting PDF file is not likely an argument that will convince many people nowadays

Also creating a PDF file in the way this toolkit will require is not exactly trivial as it is basically what you would have to do to draw your own graphs in the Picture Control. A nice and powerful feature but not one to have in ones every day toolset portofolio.

Nevertheless it is an interesting feature but what would probably make it stand apart, would be an extension to the Report Generation Toolkit that adds export to PDF reports through the existing Report Generation Toolkit interface. Not exactly trivial to do and the fact that NI already distributes two different versions of this Toolkit (Standard and MS Office Report Generation) without providing dynamic addition of new interfaces makes it certainly a difficult thing to support.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[Mechtest]

In some words, you posted your advertisement here!

The dll is not free for utility since it requires for payment

In some way itex sharp is a good choice compared  to your product.

[Prabhu.G]

pls give me the details