Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ vertical chart

[krislodz]

It works, there is graph, but there are no descriptions on axes, it is cut to just graph area.

[localghost]

Just omit the option for auto-pst-pdf. I get the complete chart.

[krislodz]

When I use this code, the result is the same:

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\documentclass[spanish]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}


\usepackage{ifplatform}
\usepackage{pst-pdf}
\usepackage{xkeyval}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\deactivatetilden
\usepackage{pst-bar,pst-all,pstricks-add}
\begin{document}
\psset{xunit=1cm,yunit=1cm}%
\renewcommand*\psbarlabelsep{50pt}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(10,9)%
\psgrid[yunit=1cm,gridlabels=0,subgriddiv=0,griddots=30](0,0)(10,8.1)%
\psaxes[labels=all,ticks=x](0,0)(10,9)%
\readpsbardata{\graphs}{graphs.dat}%
\psbarchart[labelFontSize=2pt,shadow=true,barstyle=blue,barcolsep=0.3,orientation=horizontal]{\graphs}%
\rput(-1.4,7.5){Scatter Graphs}
\rput(-1.7,6.5){Frequency Polygon}
\rput(-1.25,5.5){Line Graphs}
\rput(-1.75,4.5){Comp. Pie Graphs}
\rput(-1.2,3.5){Pictograms}
\rput(-1.2,2.5){Histograms}
\rput(-1.2,1.5){Pie Graphs}
\rput(-1.2,0.5){Bar Charts}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

Maybe my package is out of date? What can be the problem.

[localghost]

I did a mistake and reduced your example to the absolute minimum of code. Thus I didn't use the original. One more mistake was to overlook that you include the pst-pdf package. I wonder what for. Abandon this package and it will work. And answer yourself the question what you need ifplatform and xkeyval for.

[krislodz]

It is still not producing the valid pdf, the output goes to file graphs-autopp.pdf and when I try to build the original document with the graph, it is not there.

[localghost]

It is still not producing the valid pdf, the output goes to file graphs-autopp.pdf and when I try to build the original document with the graph, it is not there.

I wonder about this file called »graphs-autopp.pdf«. Actually there should be a file with the name »graphs-pics.pdf«. You can try a very minimal example.

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\listfiles
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\begin{document}
  \psset{xunit=1cm,yunit=1cm}%
  \renewcommand*\psbarlabelsep{50pt}
  \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(10,9)%
    \psgrid[yunit=1cm,gridlabels=0,subgriddiv=0,griddots=30](0,0)(10,8.1)%
    \psaxes[labels=all,ticks=x](0,0)(10,9)%
    \readpsbardata{\graphs}{graphs.dat}%
    \psbarchart[labelFontSize=2pt,shadow=true,barstyle=blue,barcolsep=0.3,orientation=horizontal]{\graphs}%
    \rput(-1.4,7.5){Scatter Graphs}
    \rput(-1.7,6.5){Frequency Polygon}
    \rput(-1.25,5.5){Line Graphs}
    \rput(-1.75,4.5){Comp. Pie Graphs}
    \rput(-1.2,3.5){Pictograms}
    \rput(-1.2,2.5){Histograms}
    \rput(-1.2,1.5){Pie Graphs}
    \rput(-1.2,0.5){Bar Charts}
  \end{pspicture}
\end{document}

Take a look at the file list in the log file. You may have to update some packages.

[krislodz]

The last snippet does not even compile to pdf, I have all packages updated.

[localghost]

I can't advice any further because it works fine for me.

[feuersaenger]

Hi,

a different approach might be to use pgfplots. It is based on TikZ/PGF rather than pstricks.

Here is what I got so far:

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\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\pgfplotsset{compat=1.5}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
	xbar,
	xmin=0,
	xtick={0,...,10},
	xmajorgrids,
	ytick=data,
	yticklabels={%
		Scatter Graphs,%
		Frequency Polygon,%
		Line Graphs,%
		Comp. Pie Graphs,%
		Pictograms,%
		Histograms,%
		Pie Graphs,%
		Bar Charts,%
	},
]

\addplot table[
	x=Value,
	% \coordindex is 0...7, 
	% but I want it upwards such that it fits
	% the yticklabels list (which is read from top to bottom).
	y expr=-\coordindex,
]
{
Value
5
1
9
4
8
3
2
5
};

\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

The pgfplots package is a generic plotting solution which can do x bars. Axes are added using an axis environment inside of a tikzpicture environment. The xbar option configures pgfplots to draw (groups of) horizontal bar plots. The xmin=0 key tells pgfplots to start the axis (and the bar) at x=0. The ytick=data means to scan the data points of the FIRST plot and generate tick labels for every encountered y coordinate. The yticklabels key assigns the associated labels (from top to bottom).

Inside of the axis environment, it expects zero, one, or more \addplot statements. In our case, we load data from an inline table and plot the "Value" column against -\coordindex. The - sign is confusing, I admit it: it is because the list of tick labels starts at the top ... and indices start "at the bottom" (at y=0). You will understand my idea if you omit the yticklabels key.


Alternatively, you got write the labels into the very same table and load the tick labels from the table:

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\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\pgfplotsset{compat=1.5}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
	xbar,
	xmin=0,
	xtick={0,...,10},
	xmajorgrids,
	ytick=data,
	table/col sep=semicolon,
	yticklabels from table={data.dat}{Label},
]

\addplot table[
	x=Value,
	y expr=-\coordindex,
]
{data.dat};

\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

This yields the same output if data.dat contains

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Value;Label
5;Scatter Graphs
1;Frequency Polygon
9;Line Graphs
4;Comp. Pie Graphs
8;Pictograms
3;Histograms
2;Pie Graphs
5;Bar Charts

note that I change the column separator to semicolon (the default would be "white space"...)