We all know it. So what do you guys do to circumvent it. It looks like excel charts copied into illustrator is one way.
We are experiencing a problem with that though, (using numbers on mac not excel) it is "fudging" some of the data points if there is a large number of them. For our purposes this is unacceptable.
Ultimately the data needs to be in indesign anyway so if there are ways for charts to be generated in indesign, that'd be optimal, but I know where I can draw the line. Here is what I'm dealing with:
- Deadlines are quick so we don't have tons of time to dick with charts
- We need to maintain a very high level of accuracy
- The data changes on a regular basis (adding new data points)
- The size of the chart changes regularly (to fit a variety of contexts)
- The charts are designed, meaning if we use illustrators native chart function we have to "reapply" the style after adding data
I'm certain I'm not the only one with this mess of a situation so what are people doing to fix it? Indesign and Illustrator options welcome. Different softwar for creating charts, or plugin options are welcome. Just tell me what you do to deal with this I don't care what the solution is. I'm just at a complete loss here.
