Archive for February, 2008

Save your charts and maps as PDF, EPS, TIFF, JPG and other vector and bitmap formats.

Monday, February 25th, 2008

A lot of amCharts and amMap users asked me whether it is possible to export charts and maps in any vector format so that they could use them for high resolution prints. Recently I made some digging and found that yes, it is possible!

This method requires some additional software to be installed on your computer, so you can’t make this available for everybody; however, I guess, that in most cases there will be a limited number of people in your company who will be using this function.

Using this method you will be able to save charts as vector PDF, EPS or PS files but also as bitmaps – PNG, JPG, BMP, PCX and TIFF. And this will not require web server and will be done much faster when using default amCharts’ “export as image” feature. So I would recommend use “export as image” function only if you need this feature to be public.

Here is a tutorial about exporting flash charts to PDF and other formats.

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What’s new in v 2.1.2

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

AmMap v 2.1.2 has the following new features/fixes:

  1. balloon border (color, alpha and width are configurable)
  2. lock zoom toolbar, text box and small map
  3. disable small map interaction
  4. flicker right after map is loaded fixed

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Labels in data file

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Since v 1.4.0 of all charts you can have labels in data file (only if you are using XML data format). This is useful if you have multiple charts with the same settings and only labels are different.

Adding data labels to data XML is easy – the syntax of XML is exactly the same as it is in settings file. Here is an example:

<chart>
    <series>
        <value xid="0">Xbox 360</value>
        <value xid="1">PlayStation 3</value>
        <value xid="2">Wii</value>
    </series>
    <graphs>
        <graph gid="0" color="#9FCD95" gradient_fill_colors="#FFFFFF, #9FCD95">
            <value xid="0" description="Click for more info about Xbox 360" url="http://www.xbox360.com">399</value>
            <value xid="1" description="Click for more info about PlayStation 3" url="http://www.playstation.com">599</value>
            <value xid="2" description="Click for more info about Wii" url="http://www.wii.com">249</value>
        </graph>
    </graphs>

  <labels>
    <label>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>20</y>
      <rotate></rotate>
      <width></width>
      <align>center</align>
      <text_color></text_color>
      <text_size></text_size>
      <text>
        <![CDATA[<b>Prices of Game Consoles</b>]]>
      </text>
    </label>
  </labels>
</chart>

Another new thing which is added in v 1.4.0 is a possibility to sort legend entries in reverse order. This is done by setting:

<legend>
   <reverse_order>true</reverse_order>

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What amCharts & amMaps users say

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I receive some nice feedback from amCharts and amMap users time to time, however don’t have a "Testimonials" page. But I can’t not share this one:

Wow! I must say that your products are amazing!

With just a little bit of time on Google I found your amMap. Of course,  when I first saw it, I thought "Cool! But we can’t use it." Because I needed a custom map of Missouri, I didn’t think your product was viable. But, I kept coming back to it – it just wouldn’t leave me alone! It was way too cool! Well, the more I evaluated, the more viable it became. And the documentation about creating customized maps sent it over the top. Nothing else – and I do mean NOTHING – that I had reviewed came anywhere close. It was very intuitive and easy to use. Well, in a very short time, I was able to complete the project. It debuted on "Super Tuesday" (Feb 5, 2008) at http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrmaps/.

The basis of the project was to provide a series of maps/charts that showed who was leading the 2008 presidential preference primary in Missouri based on party and which counties had completed their vote totals. With the live data we already collected with an older application, watching the maps and charts change dynamically was really exciting! We usually get quite a bit of traffic anyway, but it increased  with the interactive maps! We were mentioned by Karl Rove on the national Fox News broadcast and have been receiving many comments since  about how fantastic the pages were and how did we do it.

Of course, I owe it all to you! I’m debating on whether to continue being selfish and hording you as my secret weapon, or being nice and sharing the info. Of course, in the end I’ll have to share, but I wanted  to first contact you.  Again, thanks for such wonderful products! Keep up the excellent work!

Erica Gage
Missouri Secretary of State
http://www.sos.mo.gov

If you’d like to leave some feedback on amCharts & amMap, you can post comments here, from now on this will be a testimonials page. Thank you!

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ASP.NET controls for amCharts now support Line & Area charts

Monday, February 11th, 2008

We have just released a new version of "ASP.NET controls for amCharts". This version adds support for Line & Area charts. Other changes in this release:

  • FEATURE ADDED: no flash player message is now customizable
  • BUGFIX: export as image script url wasn’t properly resolved
  • BUGFIX: ColumnChart: chart type wasn’t rendered to XML settings and it wasn’t possible to display bar charts

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Maps of Italy and Spain added

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Interactive maps of Italy and Spain were added to the package. Fla files of maps files are available for enterprise license owners.

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ASP.NET Controls now support Column & Bar chart

Monday, February 4th, 2008

We are happy to announce that support for Column & Bar charts was added to "ASP.NET Controls for amCharts". New version 1.0.0 Beta 2 with ColumnChart control is available for immediate download at the download page.

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