scientific chart+tabcalc program

notREALly · 11-26-2003, 03:03 AM

Does anyone know a program which is like Exel i.g userfriendly, a lot of options for chart and a good graphic ?
koffice .. I tryed it seems a bit like crap for that ...
I (We) need anything with which you can display data in good looking chart
(Diagram) and can do a lot of different calculations with these data ..

thanks for help

Quis · 11-26-2003, 03:12 AM

did you try openoffice?

notREALly · 11-26-2003, 03:20 AM

Is there a program like I need in openoffice ?
I havn't tryed it yet ..

Quis · 11-26-2003, 03:41 AM

openoffice is a open derivat of Sun's StarOffice.
in my opinion is OpenOffice 95% compareable to M$ Office.
you have features like generating diagramms from data-sources(spread-sheat or ODBC),
consolidate data and the excel-standard formulas.

openoffice includes something like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
http://www.openoffice.org/

notREALly · 11-26-2003, 04:11 AM

ok I will try that then...
my chef says that openoffice is like staroffice and their chartprograms aren
't as fuctional as excel .. i wouldn't like it to be forced to use Win ..
any more ideas of programs I can use and which are free ?

spurious · 11-27-2003, 06:48 PM

I found this thread on google, which discusses the relative merits of scientific plotting software in linux. The poster highly recommends a combination of gnumeric (a gnome-based spreadsheet, that my accountant wife says is comparable to Excel XP) and guppi (gnome-based scientific plotting tool).

The guppi project page also has links to other scientific plotting software.

You may also want to check out SciGraphica, another GPL scientific plotting package.