ChartDirector Ver 1.5 for Win 2000/NT/ME/98
Copyright (C) 2001 Advanced Software Engineering Limited
All Rights Reserved

For license information, please refer to LICENSE.TXT.
For ordering information, please refer to ORDER.TXT.

*** Introduction ***

ChartDirector is a powerful software graphics library for creating 
professionally looking charts in PNG, JPEG, WBMP or alternative 
GIF format.

ChartDirector employs an elegant object model to allow software 
developers to control every chart details. Despite the 
flexibility, ChartDirector is easy to use. Even relatively complex 
charts require just a few lines of code. 

ChartDirector supports pie, bar, line, area and HLOC (high-low-
open-close) charts. It's object model employs a layering 
architecture so you could combine charts together to create 
arbitrary combo charts.

The chart file sizes generated by ChartDirector is small and ideal 
for web use. In addition, ChartDirector can produce very small 
charts for use as thumbnails.

The ChartDirector API is available COM/ASP/VB/VBScript/Jscript, 
C++, Python, Perl and PHP. Please visit www.advsofteng.com for 
the most updated information.

*** Installation ***

For COM/ASP/VB/VBScript/Jscript version of ChartDirector is 
distributed as an EXE file. Simply run the EXE file to install
ChartDirector.

The C++, Python, Perl and PHP versions of ChartDirector are 
distributed as zip files. Simply create an empty subdirectory
where you want ChartDirector to install to, and unzip the 
ChartDirector zip file to that subdirectory.

After installation, you may refer to the documentation on how
to use ChartDirector in your development environment.

*** Documentation ***

The ChartDirector documentation is under the "doc" subdirectory 
in PDF format. You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader Ver 3.0 or above
to read the file.

The ChartDirector distribution includes plenty of sample code and
projects. Please refer to the ChartDirector documentation for 
details.
