::: KNOW HOW ::: Create you own charts with FomCalc

Hello community,
 
some people here were asking for a way of creating charts within a PDF, me too.
The WWW gives many different answers and causes also many questions.
 
There are many different ways to embed charts in a PDF, like Flex, Flash or PNG-images from the Google Chart API for example.
But for many of us, this ways are unknown terrains and very hard to understand or simply impracticable because these methods always need external ressources or other applications.
 
An other and easy way to build charts is FormCalc.
All you need is a LiveCycle Designer to create a XML-form with a few lines of code.
I designed some examples for you!
 
It contains until now 8 different chart types.
 
1. Horizontal Bar Chart

 
2. Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart


 
3. Vertical Bar Chart --> CHECK OUT NEW VERSION HERE

 
4. Vertical Stacked Bar Chart (UPDATE: The values are now displayed within the chart.)

 
5. Bubble Chart / Scatter Plot --> CHECK OUT NEW VERSION HERE

 
6. Waterfall Chart (NEW)

 
7. Line Chart (NEW)

 
8. Pie Chart (NEW) DETAILS SEE HERE

 
Works with Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
 
You can download the example form here. Editing can be done with the LiveCylce Designer.
 
Example PDF (except pie chart)
 
Example XML data (except pie chart)
 
Your feedback is welcome!