Commerical graphing packages?

[Vincent Wehren]

Erik Johnson wrote:
>     I am aware of ChartDirector (http://www.advsofteng.com/ ) which
> explicitly supports python and seems to be about the right level of
> sophistication. I don't really know of any other packages in this space, do
> you? I am seeking feedback and reccomendations from people who have used
> this package or similar ones. I am particularly interested to hear about any
> limitations or problems you ran into with whatever package you are using.

We use both the Python and C++ bindings of ChartDirector (although their 
license always spans /all/ supported bindings. It's all pretty 
straight-forward, well-documented, and the license fee is a bargain 
compared to other packages we've used in the past. What it is not 
suitable for is maybe allowing for 3d-views of data cubes - changeable 
on the fly.

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Vincent Wehren