No Chart creation tool???

Hello,

I have a question about a process that's bothering me a bit.
It seems to be quite common that I have been asked to either create a pie chart or a doughnut chart with pie segmentation. I'm scratching my head over Xara's inability to offer this function in a quick like manner.

Currently,...I do this. In Illustrator 12, I create a pie chart (say 10 segments),
export it out as an .wmf,..since emf doesn't seem to work in Xara, and then while in Xara, create a smaller circle and lay it in the center of the imported pie chart. Then I join them and use the subtract option to cut out the smaller circle from the pie chart and give me a segmented doughnut chart.

It works flawlessly,..but it still seems silly that Xara doesn't have a chart creation tool within it's GUI.

Please educate me if I'm doing this in a totally illogical way.

Thanks,
Todd

Hi Todd,

I'm not aware of any chart features in Xara Xtreme. With Xara's speed creating a chart hasn't been difficult to do when I've needed one.

I've been going thru the workbooks on my quest to learn Xara.

Check out Workbook 7 - "Creating a 3D pie chart." Evidently Xara doesn't have a built in tool for creating pie charts, but the workbook takes you through the process in a straightforward manner. Hopefully this helps!

-fyip

As always, thanks!!!

Yeah,..I think it's just as easy to do it the way I've been,..but it was good to easy another option. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something in the tools options. It's not too painful to do it the way I've been, but I always like to know another way of doing soemthing just to feed my quest for knowledge.

Thanks

Todd

http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook07/page_5.htm

I thought this would help, this is the workbook spoke of earlier.