About Chart Maker Pro
Chart Maker Pro Mac
Chart Maker Pro Mac is a powerful graphing tool for creating Charts on your MAC or MacBook. Chart Maker Mac is ideal for personal use, school, projector based presentations & other areas where data visualization is Key.
System Requirements:
-Chart Maker Mac requires OS X 10.7 or higher
What’s the difference between Chart Maker Pro Mac & Chart Maker Mac?
-The difference lies in the number of Charts. Chart Maker Pro contains more charts than that of the regular Chart Maker.
Features:
-Render fullscreen charts for projector based and other forms of presentations. (ideal for educators)
-Export Hi-Res(High Resolution) Charts to your computer in PDF & PNG image Formats
-Easily move your charts to your iPad by simply exporting your data & importing it to CM Premium for iPad & vice versa.
-Render 15 different types of charts including:
- Pie Chart
- Ring Pie Chart
- 3d ring Chart
- 3dPie Chart
- 3d Exploded Pie Chart
- Column Combo
- Line Combo
- Spline Combo
- Area
- Bar
- 3d Bar
- 3d Col
- Stacked Bar
- Stacked Column
- AVG combo
-Easily copy & Paste your charts in other MAC Applications including Keynote, Pages & Numbers
-Print your charts from within the Application
-Define the look and feel of your charts by easily customizing chart colors with the inbuilt color picker
-Save your charts for future use & edits
-CM creates data files in CSV format, meaning you can easily create your data files in any Spreadsheet application & open it to the App
-Easily render different types charts with the same data without re-entering it.
Creating a new Chart
Selecting a Chart Type
Visualizing sample data
To Visualize sample data, click the ‘SAMPLE’ button to load the data on the grid. This data is intended to show you how data should be entered on the grid. Please note that the Chart Maker grid does NOT support the operations of a spreadsheet software.
Getting Started
To create a new Chart, simply enter your data on the grid . All your chart labels should be entered in the yellow cells while numeric values should go in the white cells.
Customizing Colors
Set Background Colors
To Customize the Chart background color, click on the background color swatch to open the color picker dialog.
Setting Item Colors
To Customize chart item colors, simply click on the color swatch next to the item you want to update.
Setting Label Colors
To Customize the Chart title, X & Y Axis label colors, simply click on the labels color picker icon next to ‘FULL SCREEN ZOOM’ button.
Customizing Font
Customize font family & size
To format your chart labels, click on the font family & size drop downs to activate the available options.
Exporting Charts
Sharing Charts
To share a Chart, Click on the Share button on the toolbar or click on the File >Share menu. When prompted choose the appropriate format & resolution.
Import CSV data
Importing data
Moving Charts
Copying & Pasting
To move charts to other apps, click on the Copy Icon on the toolbar or on the Edit > Copy menu to move your charts into the clipboard and then click the Paste option in the App where you wish to move it.
Moving Charts to iPad
Migrating Charts to iPad
Easily move your charts to your iPad by simply importing your Chart Maker Mac data file to Chart Maker Premium for iPad.
Same App, Same Charts on your iPad, View Chart Maker in the App Store
Printing Charts
Printing Charts
To print a chart, simply click on the Print icon on the toolbar.You can also click File >Print form the menu. To print custom sizes, simply hide grid, go fullscreen or resize your Chart Maker Pro window before Printing.
Rendering fullscreen
Fullscreen Charts
Chart Maker Mac allows you to easily present your ideas on big screen. Simply click on the “FULL SCREEN ZOOM” button and Chart Maker will automatically render a bigger high resolution chart that utilizes the entire space on your computer screen. Use this feature when making presentations on big screen. This feature is ideal for educators, students and other areas where wide screen data visualization is key.
Resizing Charts
Rendering Custom Sizes
Chart Maker Mac is fully responsive, as you resize the window, the Chart Automatically resizes to fit. Simply drag the window edges to enlarge your chart. You can also enlarge your chart by clicking on the fullscreen button.