Offers a multitude of options to display your data, and besides that, it also analyzes data using features for charts analysis and statistical features. It identifies valuable information. After a graph is created it can be shared by exporting it to PDF or TIFF formats.
Grapher is a software program that provides users with various tools for creating publication-quality graphs and different types of charts.
The program is easy to install, and though the installation goes smoothly, it does take several minutes to complete.
At first sight, Grapher seems best suited for professional users, mainly because of its complex interface. For those who might feel overwhelmed by it, I suggest accessing the tutorial menu, located in the top right window. You'll find there all the guidance needed to achieve your personal tasks.
About program features, I can tell you there are lots of them. Starting with plenty of graph types - more than 70 to be precise - to help you create 2D and 3D graphs that can transmit your message to the audience.
Next, it offers numerous customization options, such as adding legends, titles, and axes, or define custom line styles, colors, and fills, which in the end contribute to display data in an easy-to-understand manner.
In order to obtain better presentation results, you can share your charts with colleagues or clients, and export them to high-quality formats like PNG or SVG.
Additionally, if you want to print your graphs, it can easily be done by saving your files in formats like PDF or TIFF and then accessing the Print menu.
One of the most exciting features may well be the Automation feature - by creating scripts to automate repetitive tasks, you won't waste time launching the same process over and over. It supports programming languages such as C++, Python, or Perl, and it even has a built-in Virtual Basic scripting tool.
In conclusion, I would say that Grapher is best suited for professional use, though it can be used by novice users with the help of built-in tutorials.
It includes complex features that use a high amount of system resources, and because everything comes with a price, this tool surely has a high one.
v14.3.383 [May 15, 2019]
- Durov Plots: Durov plots are another way to present the same hydrological, hydrogeological, or geochemical data presented in Piper plots. Additionally, pH and TDS data can be added to the anion and cation data. The plots can have uniform points, or can use points binned into classes and displayed with different symbol properties..
- Create plots from row data: For a long time, Grapher has had the ability to transpose data, so if the data was presented along rows instead of down columns, users could rearrange the data for plotting. This is no longer necessary. Now Grapher allows for plotting row data as-is..
- Multi-page plot document: Space is a luxury. Sometimes it's necessary to create a single project file that contains many graphs, because they're all from a single data file or related data sets, or for some other reason. In the past, this could result in a plot document that was difficult to look at, since there were many tiny plots, and it could also make printing or exporting difficult, since the desired plot was not necessarily the one that lined up with the page border. No more! The file format for Grapher Preview has been adapted to support multiple pages, so you can create each graph in it's own page and still save to a single project file..
Fit Curve Improvements:
- Set numeric format for fit curve statistics.
- Automatic degree for Polynomial fit curves.
- Edit custom fit curve equations from the Property Manager.
- Save/load weights for Weighted Average fit curves.
- View and edit weights for Weighted Average fit curves in the Property Manager.
- Add new weights between existing weights when changing Window Width for weighted average fit curves.
- Use date/time for fit curve Data limits and Plot interval if plot data is formatted as date/time.
- Improve fit curve names in Object Manager by including plot name.
Bar Chart Improvements:
- Set bar width based on from/to or width data in axes units.
- Color bars differently if the bar value is above or below the base value.
- Update default category bar chart label properties.
Axes Improvements:
- Improve automatic axes limits.
- Update axes titles when plot data columns are changed.
Page Improvements:
- Update page orientation when page size is changed, if applicable.
- Support for custom page sizes.
UI Improvements:
- List plot type in Property Manager.
- Improve discoverability of contour map properties.
- Improve discoverability of error bar properties.
- Improve discoverability of fit curves and fit curve statistics.
- Make more dialogs resizable.
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Import/Export:
- Import ESRI File Geodatabase (.FGDB, .GDB).
- Import ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.MDB).
- Export GPX from the plot window.
- Save the worksheet as a DBF.
Many more:
- Class plots: Override gradient with changes to individual classes.
- Scatter Plot: Option to connect points with spline smooth line instead of direct line.
- Name plots from data headers.
- Object Manager: Turn on/off visibility of multiple objects at once.
- Set plot Worksheet Rows to a Custom value even when there is no data in that row.
- Speed up redraw.
- Reset dialog locations at restart to fix dialogs disappearing off the screen.
- Licensing: Run the MSI installer with a flag pointing to a license settings file.
- Streamline crash reporter dialog to require fewer clicks.
- Embed worksheet formatting into GPJ file.
- When saving file using big data with formatting to an older GPJ, prompt user to save all data with no formatting or to save data limited by XLSX limit with formatting.
