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Image Charting API - Opinion Please

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:22 pm
by Live24x7
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 ?

Re: Image Charting API - Opinion Please

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:08 pm
by greyhoundcode
ezComponents have a graph/charting component, various drivers are available depending on whether you want the output to be Flash-generated, SVG, .jpeg etc.

Re: Image Charting API - Opinion Please

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:03 pm
by Live24x7
ezComponents Feels good . thnks

Re: Image Charting API - Opinion Please

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:31 pm
by tr0gd0rr
Several years ago I used Pear Image_Graph with a lot of success. It is no longer maintained but it might work for you.