Does anyone have an opinion on the currently best chart plotting
software for layout/publishing? We need to produce lots of
pretty-looking charts, almost all simple line and column charts. No
number-crunching.

Deltagraph used to be standard - but said to be buggy, and judging by
the one test download I did, it is really difficult to use.
Kaleidagraph seems to be not up to standard for layout.
What about Aabel? Alas it is only for Macs. But is it any good?

Any other ideas?

If you avoid the default formatting and spend a little time tweaking the
appearance of various chart elements, you might be able to coax something
useful out of Excel.

- Jon
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"Matthew" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have an opinion on the currently best chart plotting
> software for layout/publishing? We need to produce lots of
> pretty-looking charts, almost all simple line and column charts. No
> number-crunching.
>
> Deltagraph used to be standard - but said to be buggy, and judging by
> the one test download I did, it is really difficult to use.
> Kaleidagraph seems to be not up to standard for layout.
> What about Aabel? Alas it is only for Macs. But is it any good?
>
> Any other ideas?
>