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On Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:36:29 PM UTC-6, Helpful Harry wrote:
> In article <2c906808-348a-4aac-8fa7-5a8e48679f08@googlegroups.com>,
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> bluesbrothers16@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:25:44 PM UTC-6, Helpful Harry wrote:
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> > > In article <27499df1-fa8a-4d5f-99c8-104a4cc4938a@googlegroups.com>,
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> > > There is evidently a plug-in for InDesign to create charts, but it's 
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> > > aimed at professional print / design companies and costs a whopping 
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> > > US$3,000!!
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> > Thanks again.  I understand where you're coming from with the skipping of 
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> > illustrator.  Even with the colors, I can make swatched in ID.  
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> You can't change the colours of an imported chart that in InDesign. You
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> would have to go back to Excel or Illustrator and then create a new PDF,
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> which InDesign would automatically re-link to.
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> > We've never used excel or powerpoint to feed our ID project charts 
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> > before so i'm not sure if I can recreate the charts I need to.  I think 
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> > I can and then use the swatches to get teh color right.
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> If you're recreating the charts in InDesign you can use any colour from
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> the Swatch Palette. I don't know how easy it is to recreate pie charts in
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> the newer versions of InDesign, but other types are easy, if fiddly, to
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> do. Of course they are manually created, so don't use the source data.
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> > Can you specify the $3k tool? or send me the information for it?  If it 
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> > populates precreated charts, then it would be worth it for us to purchase.
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> I don't know much about it (it turned up in a quick Google search), but
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> the US$3000 software is called uChart by XMPie. It does bar charts, area
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> charts and line charts, as well as pie charts, using dynamic data from
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> other files (not sure if those are Excel or plain text). The website is
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> <http://www.xmpie.com/uchart>. I've had a quick look and it appears to be
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> one of the modules in a larger piece of software available for Mac and PC,
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> which explains why it costs so much.
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> Helpful Harry  :o)

Thanks Harry,you've been great.  I'm going to test the excel-illustrator-id out and see if it works for us.  I think that it's possible adobe isn't the right solution for us.  I'll look at other publication applications aimed at business and see what they can do.  

I have been in contact with XMPie and Chartbot.  XMPie actually uses Chartbot.  Chartbot doesn't do it themselves and do not have plans for linking functionality.  XMPie told us to purchase the full 1v1 Marketing Solution for $15k to get the uChart. There has to be a software vendor that can do this for less than that.