What's New in Grapher^™ 3?

Grapher is versatile!

Grapher 3 runs on Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0 and Me.  Grapher 3 supports multiple sheet Excel files!

Grapher is User Friendly!

Toolbars are floating or dockable.  Customize your toolbars to include only the buttons you need.  Turn toolbars on and off to suit your preference.

Create graphs in many different ways.

• Use the step by step Graph Wizard.
• Highlight columns in the worksheet and click the graph button.
• Add new plots from the same worksheet with a single click.
• Create custom templates for use with many different worksheets.

Turn objects on or off or select objects using the new Object Manager.

Grapher Supports Numerous Formats!

Many new import and export formats have been added.

• Import options: GSB, BNA, DLG, LGO, LGS, DXF, PLT, BLN, CLP, WMF, TIF, BMP, TGA, PCX, WPG, DCX, EPS, JPG, PCT, SHP, and MIF.

• Export Options: WMF, CLP, DXF, CGM, TIF, BMP, TGA, PCX, WPG, JPG, PCT, and DCX.

Automate Repetitive Tasks!

Automate repetitive graphing tasks with Grapher's updated scripting language.   Grapher's Scripter™ uses a BASIC syntax and can be called from other OLE compliant applications including Visual BASIC for Applications (VBA).  The updated automation language makes it easier than ever to control the properties of individual drawing and graph objects. 

Grapher is Complete!

For professional quality graphs, add headers and footers directly in Grapher.  Control exactly what you want to print by turning objects on or off.  Add text blocks with colored backgrounds and your professional quality graph is complete and ready for publication!

Templates Make the Graph Faster!

Use Template Graphs to set graphing preferences in Grapher.  Once a template graph is created, use the template with any data set.  When opening a template, choose whether to use the same worksheet for each curve or different worksheets.  Decide whether to specify the columns for each curve or to use those set by the template.  Templates can be used  to retain customizations such as the number of decimal places on axis tick mark labels, label angles, axis labels, graph titles, line plot colors, or any other graphing option.  Print multiple data files from a template with a single command.

Move Plot Labels

Sometimes, after creating the plot and adding labels labels overlap.  In Grapher, moving these labels is easy.  Select the plot and move the labels wherever you want them to be.  Labels can be moved up, down, or to the left or right as far as you desire.

Easily Display and Organize Graph Objects

The new object manager graphically displays the organization of all objects and plots held within the plot document.  The ability to have the object manager always available makes the editing of objects within a graph much easier.  Simply select the object in the object manager and proceed to the dialog box that controls the attributes for that feature.  Move objects to the foreground or background by re-arranging the drawing order.  Hide objects in the graph by removing the visibility check mark.  Change the size, position, line style, fill style, and ID for axes, lines, or any object in your graph.

Use the Object Manager to view and
edit all the objects on the graph

Create 6 New Graph Types!

Six new graph types have been added to Grapher.  Create step plots, bubble plots, floating bar charts, rose diagrams, ternary diagrams, and box and whisker plots.  In addition, all of the older graph types are still included: line, symbol, function, bar, polar, pie, histograms, and hi-low-close graphs.

Step Plot Graphs

Display your line plot with only vertical and horizontal lines using Grapher's step plot graph.  

Use the Step plot to display only vertical,
and horizontal lines on your line plot.

Bubble Plots

Display your symbol plots as bubble plots to vary the diameter of each bubble based on a third variable.  This provides a way to represent an additional dimension of data, effectively making the Bubble Plot a three dimensional graph.

Bubble plots show three dimensions of data.

Floating Bar Charts

Use Grapher's Floating Bar Charts to display the difference between two variables with respect to the same X variable.  Change the bar fill and line properties, add labels, or clip bars.  Choose to display bars horizontally or vertically.

Floating bar charts are a wonderful way to see
correlations between two data sets!

Rose Diagrams

Use Grapher's Rose Diagrams to display statistical data on a polar plot.  Change the bin size, change the line or fill color or style, make the bins unidirectional or bidirectional, and add error bars.

Rose diagrams show the number of counts on the radial axis
and the angle on the circular axis.

Ternary Diagrams

Ternary diagrams show the relative proportions of three variables on three different axes.  Set the axis properties to show percentages or fractions.  Add grid lines and plot labels to make the graph easier to read.

Display ternary diagrams with labels.  Change the 
order of labels to what display only what you want!

Box-Whisker Plots

Box-Whisker Plots show statistical information based on a column of data.  Show the minimum, maximum, and median data values.  Add points to display the outliers.  

Graphically show the difference between two categories 
using the statistical information contained in a box-whisker plot.

More Worksheet Features!

• Print, save and edit the worksheet contents.
• Up to five million rows and columns can be accommodated by the worksheet. 
• Open and save the worksheet contents in the following formats: XLS, SLK, WKx, WRx, CSV, TXT, DAT, BNA, and BLN.
• Control row height, column width, and background color of individual cells.
• Sort the worksheet on up to three columns.
• Automatically insert mathematical functions when performing worksheet transforms.
• Create graphs by highlighting worksheet rows and pressing the graph button.
• Display the worksheet and the graph simultaneously with a new view style.
• Export fit curve, function plot, and histogram bin counts to a worksheet.
• Display all worksheet names used by a graph in the plot window.

Additional Features

• Create custom line styles, colors, and fill patterns easily.
• Show tick marks as superscripted exponents (1e9 is displayed as 10⁹).
• Change worksheets or axes for multiple plots at the same time.
• Choose to fill below or above a curve.  Choose the Y axis value where the fill is to stop.
• Use European or American date formats or add your own customized date format.
• Use Null data and Plot data to only show the data you choose.
• Use the improved text editor in legend line entries.
• Edit the buttons to show for the Standard toolbar.  Dock any toolbar in any location around the Plot Document window, display the toolbars as palettes, or turn the toolbars off.

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