Review
SparkMaker is a plugin for Microsoft Office to creating sparklines graphics.
This applications gets installed 'within' Microsoft Office and offers the means for sparkline graphics creation in Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
It uses a mini-clicks graphics for automatically condense all the data into sparklines.
The miniature graph (mini chart) represents an existing major graphic such as bar graphs, management reports, sales reports, etc. but in a compressed (but meaningful) small diagram. These diagrams automatically will fit into any Excel, Word or PowerPoint cell.
This 'add-on' gets inserted into the Microsoft Office programs as an auxiliary for obtaining sparklines graphics, representing more complex graphical data presentations.
The application allows a user to export the sparkline graphics directly to an HTML ticker, creating an HTML document for direct insertion into a web page.
Graphs can be generated in single and multicolor styles. A single color function can be displayed in the same cell the real function is located. Multicolor functions require two cells: one for the formula itself and the other for the resulting sparklines graphic.
Sparklines graphics can also be exported to regular graphic formats such as GIF, JPG, BMP, TIFF or PNG. The application uses TrueType Fonts for generating the sparklines, creating a rextual image or vector based images in Enhanced Metafile format.
The application supports bars, lines, pies and winner-loser sparkline types. Graphics are scalable and can also display trends and standard deviation. |
