To try this out straight away either type in the following line at the command line
(assuming that the current working directory has been changed to where the files have
been extracted from the ZIP): .\PDFChart.exe -options PDF-Chart-Creator-Example-Bar-Horizontal-Chart.txt -openpdf
Or double-click on the Examples.bat file.
Both of these will create the example Horizontal Bar chart PDF document PDF-Chart-Creator-Example-Bar-Horizontal-Chart.pdf and then attempt to open it using the default PDF viewer. You may be surprised to find that the file size of this example chart is only just over 2 Kb!
If you double-click on PDF-Chart-Creator-Example-Bar-Horizontal-Chart.txt to view it's contents you will find the following list of commands:
-chart Bar Horizontal
-datum 1950 2556
-datum 1960 3040
-datum 1970 3707
-datum 1980 4454
-datum 1990 5277
-datum 2000 6073
-page 600 400 #ccccff
-chartheading top center
-headingtitle 14 Times-Bold #3333ff normal
-headingsubtitle 12 Times-BoldItalic #3333ff normal
-chartbackground #808080 #ffffff
-decimalpoints 0
-axescaptionX 14 Times-Bold #3333ff normal center "World Population (Millions)"
-axescaptionY 14 Times-Bold #3333ff normal middle "Year"
-axeslabelX 12 Times-Bold #3333ff normal
-axeslabelY 12 Times-Bold #3333ff normal
-axesline 1.0 #000000 full
-axesgridline 1.0 #000000
-axesdivisions 9
-axesscale range 2000 6500
-axesgridlinestyle 7 7 4
-barborder 1.0 #000000
-barcolor #00cc00 #99ffff
-barspacing 7
-barlabel AxesAndEnd
-output PDF-Chart-Creator-Example-Bar-Horizontal-Chart.pdf
-author "Utility Warrior"
-creator "PDF Chart Creator"
-title "Example Horizontal Bar Chart with interpolated bar color and graduated background"
-subject "For more information please visit http://www.UtilityWarrior.com/PDF-Chart-Creator.htm"
-outline
-print
-centerwindow
-fitwindow
-pagemodeusenone
-pagelayoutsinglepage