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Evaluation of Graphics Packages for PCs
More Business and Technical Charting
| Feature | Stanford Graphics | DeltaGraph | Origin | Sigmaplot |
| Bar or column plot (horizontal/ vertical) | ||||
| Overlaid | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Stacked | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Floating bars or columns | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Variable width bars or columns | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Build up to total | No | Yes | No | No |
| 3D bars or columns | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pie plot | ||||
| Exploding segment | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic segments annotation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Stacked | No | Yes | No | No |
| Multiple | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| 3D pie plot | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Histograms | ||||
| One variable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Two variables (3-d) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Other plot types | ||||
| Combination plots | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Line over bar | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Can overlay any combination | Limited | Limited | Yes | Yes |
| Maximum number of overlays | No limit | One | 50 | No limit |
| Multiple x versus y | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple y versus x | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |