General Features:

• Fast and Efficient
  Multi-threaded architecture specially designed for the demanding requirements of server side usage.
• Flexible
  Object oriented API allows you to control and customize chart details, enabling you to design the charts you want.
• Comprehensive Chart Styles
  Pie, donut, bar, line, spline, step line, trend line, curve-fitting, inter-line coloring, area, scatter, bubble, floating box, box-whisker, waterfall, finance, gantt, vector, radar, polar, rose. XY axis swapping (rotated charts) and 3D effects.
• Financial Library with Source Code
  Sophisticated financial charting library with 46 technical indicators. Comes with source code. Also includes an Interactive Financial Chart sample program.
• Meters and Gauges
  Angular meters of arbitrary angular span. Linear meters in horizontal and vertical orientations.
• Layer Architecture
  Synchronized chart layers allow chart styles to overlay for arbitrary combo charts and special effects. For example, box-whisker layers can be used to add error symbols to any XY chart styles, and scatter layers can be used to highlight data points with custom symbols.
• CDML
  The innovative ChartDirector Mark Up Language (CDML) technology allows rich formatting of text with embedding icons and images. CDML is supported in all ChartDirector text positions, including chart titles, legend keys, axis labels, data labels, etc.
• Advanced Color System
  In additional to ARGB colors (true color with alpha transparency), all objects in ChartDirector can be painted using "magic colors" - colors that depend on position. These include patterns, gradients, metallic colors, and colors that depend on data values (eg. for indicating thresholds).
• Automatic Image Map Generation
  Generates image maps to support tool tips and other mouse interactions. Ideal for "drill-down" capabilities. Tool tips are customizable and can include custom text or data. Image maps are "open-ended" and can include user-defined regions, such as for company logos, icons and buttons.
• Browser Compatibility
  Produces charts in PNG, JPEG, BMP, WBMP and GIF. Viewable by virtually all browsers, including mobile and hand-held devices. Charts can be embedded in email, word documents, PDF, etc. as images. No client side Java or ActiveX control required.
• On the Fly Chart Creation and Delivery
  Charts can be generated and delivered to the browser on the fly as standard HTTP image data. No temporary image file is needed.
• Bandwidth Efficient
  Optimized color reduction algorithm for creating palette based charts that look as good as true color charts, but with much smaller file size. Ideal for Internet applications.
• Easy to Use
  Producing charts requires just a few lines of code. Comprehensive documenation and numerous sample programs.
• Internationalization
  Unicode characters support. Configurable number and date/time formats.