On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
said:
Any clue of what software the people at The Economist uses to create
charts? Im wondering whether there is some software out there better
than MS Excel that would give better control without the onerous
workarounds.

I think they use drawing packages like Adobe Illustrator to work the
results of a graph program (which is probably Excel) into something that
looks prettier. In other words, it's an even more onerous workaround for
them, but they're prepared to pay art staff to do it all day, in order
to have something that looks nice for the magazine.

As you haven't got a magazine editor's budget, the place to look for
good-looking graphs without excess manual labor is away from the
magazines rather than toward them.

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