Image Charting API - Opinion Please
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:22 pm
I need a FREE chart API for commercial use.
Charting is a crucial area for my project and i want to settle for nothing but the best but in the free domain.
All i want is simple charts like bar charts, pie chart etc.
but i need them as images - as i have to offer the ability to print them.
Here's what I have researched so far:
1) Google Chart API though great - does not fit my criteria as they no longer support image based charting. I need images for charts.
2) XML/SWF/ Javascript Charts are not ok for the same reasons - i want concrete images.
2) Anything other than google, I am not comfortable with remote rendering of graphs.
3) Tried pChart - Loved their graph quality only to find that I have to pay to use them for commercial purpose.
4) JpGraph - the graph quality on their demo page lacked elegance and even it is not free for commercial usage.
5) FusionCharts Free - renders charts only using Flash - so not applicable
6) phpchart was good in graph quality but its free only for non-commercial use. for commercial they asking for 500€ - which is absurd atleast for me
So all this research took me no where -
I wonder what constitues non-commercial usage then ?
I guess most of the websites have commercial intent behind them -
even the horwards & oxford are not purely educational sites
What then is this fuss about commercial usage !!
Any suggestions for a free charting library ?
Charting is a crucial area for my project and i want to settle for nothing but the best but in the free domain.
All i want is simple charts like bar charts, pie chart etc.
but i need them as images - as i have to offer the ability to print them.
Here's what I have researched so far:
1) Google Chart API though great - does not fit my criteria as they no longer support image based charting. I need images for charts.
2) XML/SWF/ Javascript Charts are not ok for the same reasons - i want concrete images.
2) Anything other than google, I am not comfortable with remote rendering of graphs.
3) Tried pChart - Loved their graph quality only to find that I have to pay to use them for commercial purpose.
4) JpGraph - the graph quality on their demo page lacked elegance and even it is not free for commercial usage.
5) FusionCharts Free - renders charts only using Flash - so not applicable
6) phpchart was good in graph quality but its free only for non-commercial use. for commercial they asking for 500€ - which is absurd atleast for me
So all this research took me no where -
I wonder what constitues non-commercial usage then ?
I guess most of the websites have commercial intent behind them -
even the horwards & oxford are not purely educational sites
What then is this fuss about commercial usage !!
Any suggestions for a free charting library ?