Re: more functions

[Ryan Pavlik <abiryan ryand net>]

Arnaldo Leon wrote:

<snip>
> Also - I don't know if the number of data points on a plot is limited
> (in Excel the max is 10,000), but it would be great if we could plot
> millions of points on a chart, just like matlab can.
>
> If you need a volunteer to code this stuff up, I might be able to find
> some time :)
>
> -aml
> _______________________________________________
>   
While I don't purport to speak for the Gnumeric developers, I'd say that 
a patch for a bug in the bugzilla (bugzilla.gnome.org, component 
Gnumeric) would be a great way to help out.  In the realm of graphing, 
well, I've worked with multiple 10-million point plots in a single 
graph, and Gnumeric does it without blinking, though the SVG and PNG 
exports choke :)  Excel won't even attempt more than 32000 rows in a 
graph, and Acrobat visibly lags drawing the PDF exported by Gnumeric 
with all the points. :D

Ryan

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