Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) (06/10/91)
> sstrazdu@hopi.intel.com writes: > I've seen Cricket Graph for Windows and Graph in The Box Windows > advertised. Has anyone used these products? I've used Cricket Graph on > the Macintosh. Cricket Graph on Windows is currently in release 1.3. It works well but has some limitations. It probably does everything that the current Macintosh release does. The telephone support for this product is excellent - Cricket Graph is part of the Computer Associates stable of programs. You phone your local Computer Associates number with the registration number of your package - they arrange for you to be phoned back long distance (without charge) by the technical support team for the product. Upon complaining of some of Cricket Graphs limitations, I was told that the programming team was currently working on enhancements to the Mac version of the program, and that when this was finished they would update the Windows version so that the two packages operated in a nearly identical manner. The support staff were receptive to suggestions for program improvement, and said that they would pass these along. Cricket Graph's main limitations are that it canot do 3D plots, and that at the moment you can't adjust the thickness of the "plot frame" around the graph and the thickness of the "tick marks". Cricket Graph also suffers an UAE when you try to print out your data if you have the original release of Adobe Type Manager running - later versions of ATM are supposed to work ok. -- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
sstrazdu@hopi.intel.com (Stephen Strazdus) (06/11/91)
I'm looking for a graphing package to use with window. What I would like is a package which I can use to plot data from an ascii file. 3D plots from a data file would be nice if there is something in the $200 price range. I've seen Cricket Graph for Windows and Graph in The Box Windows advertised. Has anyone used these products? I've used Cricket Graph on the Macintosh. This is the type of the product I am looking for, but I would like to know if Graph in the Box has enough extra features that it would be worth the extra $50. Finally, is there anyway to paste graphics into Word for Windows so that they use Postscript to render the line instead of bitmaps? -- Steve Strazdus sstrazdu@hopi.intel.com