Tabasoft enlivens online graphics

MacWeek, Feb 16, 1998 by Joanna Pearlstein

Italian software developer Tabasoft Sas hopes to make Web graphics more dynamic with a new CGI for Mac OS Web servers.

SendGraphic, which can operate as a plug-in for StarNine WebStar or as a CGI, creates 3-D charts using data in HTML pages, the company said.

To generate dynamic graphics, Web designers can insert HTML code that calls the CGI in Web pages. Within that code, designers can specify graphics' titles, background colors, the color of bars, and the height and width of images. SendGraphic relies on hexadecimal color values for colors in graphics.

The current version of the product can only generate 3-D bar graphs, but Tabasoft said future versions will add support for other types of graphics. SendGraphic can create charts containing up to 48 bars.

Images generated by SendGraphic can appear embedded in HTML pages, or Web pages can link to the created graphics. The software can also build a graphic from an HTML form, the company said.

SendGraphic is available now for $29 for a single user. A site license costs $290.

Tabasoft Sas of Rome is at 39-6-854-2958; taba@flashnet.it; http://tabasoft.ancitel.it/tabasoft/sendgraphic.html.>Tabasoft's SendGraphic creates 3-D bar graphs, such as the one shown here, on the fly. It generates dynamic graphics from data in Web pages.

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