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- From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 23:40:33 GMT
- Subject: Re: Looking for opinions on MaxiPlan4 for stocks, budget, misc.
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- fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III) writes:
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- > I assume MaxiPlan4 has a log function. You can use that to create a
- >column in your spreadsheet that has the logarithm of the data you want to
- >plot. Then plot the log column instead of the raw data. That should work
- >around the charting limitation for you.
-
- Though that will get you around the limitation, it's at best a real
- hassle properly labeling the y axis then.
-
- I saw this posting yesterday, and tried it out in Superplan last night.
- It worked OK, though unless the log axis covers at least around a
- decade, it's not very easy to read. I assume the reason for doing it
- is to cover at least one decade, though, so that should work fine.
- Superplan has a bit klunky a user interface, but it really does a
- good job graphing, IMHO. I have an older MaxiPlan, and it's really
- poor in this area. Plus: it has at least one bug that causes it to
- crash the system hard -- if you do an IIR on a column that yields a
- negative IIR, say bye-bye. Double-check this on the MPIV release;
- I'd like to know about it. More Superplan: there are a multitude of
- graph commands that let you put labels on things, generally where you
- want them, and even some very general purpose labeling commands. You
- can do a high-low chart, with added tics to left and/or right at
- certain levels (e.g., 25th, 50th, 75th percentile, given you've
- calculated numbers for those). Bar, stacked bar, pie, scatter, line
- are all accomodated. Output to any of a number of printers and pen
- plotters; I use both LaserJet and large pen plotters just fine with
- it. Several text fonts to choose from. Output in the resolution of
- the output device, not just screen resolution (a very serious limitation
- of MPIII, I believe). Mind you, there are lots of things I'd change
- about Superplan, but at least it doesn't crash, and the output graphics
- are quite decent (can be presentation quality if you take the time to
- put in the right commands to gussy it up).
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