Tiger's Grapher - what is it good for?

Well, of course it's good for lots of things, but may it be used to
graph data collected/generated by other applications?

For example, may Grapher be used in the same manner that Gnuplot is used -
two or three dimensional data are written to a data file, and then the
application invoked to display plots?

Is Grapher's data file format publically documented - it appears to be
some binary format, not XML as one may have predicted in this modern era.

Thanks,

--
Chris,

In article <d8lr76$vom$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>, Chris McDonald
<chris.TakeThisOut@csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> Well, of course it's good for lots of things, but may it be used to
> graph data collected/generated by other applications?

Sure, use the Import function in the Edit Points dialog after you do a
Equation > New Point Set. Default format is tab between fields, return
between records, although you can also set custom field and record
delimiters and choose the order of the fields (default is xy or xyz)
and the coordinate system (default is Cartesian).

Mind you, this is a scientific/mathematical graphing tool, not a
business charting tool; you won't be getting bar graphs from it.

--
Jerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/>

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