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Back to Press Information Chartsmith v1.2 Now Shipping Chartsmith Adds Keynote Integration, Enhances Error Bars, Trends, and AppleScript Features Reston, Virginia — March 10, 2003 — Blacksmith, developers of enterprise-class custom and commercial software for Mac OS X and Web Objects, today announced the immediate availability of Chartsmith v1.2. This release of the popular charting and graphing application for Mac OS X provides enhancements for Business, Scientific, and AppleScript-built charts and graphs. Chartsmith v1.2 includes support for Apple's Keynote presentations, major enhancements to Error Bars, Trend Line equation annotations, and an expanded AppleScript interface. "Chartsmith v1.2 continues Blacksmith's tradition for giving users what they want, the way they want it," said Tony Rennier, President and CEO of Blacksmith. "With each new release we gain better insight to our users and their needs. User feedback for Chartsmith has been overwhelmingly positive. The rich interaction between our users and our product team has been the most important factor in our success." Chartsmith v1.2 includes integrated support for Apple's Keynote presentations. Charts in a Chartsmith document can be exported to a Keynote presentation. Of course users also have the option of dragging individual charts and graphs from Chartsmith directly into Keynote, Powerpoint, or into other applications that accept dragged images. The list of applications supporting this paradigm includes Microsoft's Word and Apple's Mail application. Microsoft Excel users who use Chartsmith v1.2 to create graphs from data stored in Excel spreadsheets now enjoy support for importing data via Named Ranges. This feature enhances an already rich set of import features that enable a user to import data from Excel spreadsheets and text files stored on the user's computer or network. AppleScript users will also find something new in Chartsmith v1.2. An expanded AppleScript dictionary now supports real-time control of axis and chart titles. Chartsmith's AppleScript interface provides users and developers everything they need to fully automate graph production under Mac OS X. Some of the most significant enhancements included in Chartsmith v1.2 come in its support of scientific graphing. New features like trend line equation annotations, and significant improvements to Chartsmith error bars are among the many enhancements in this release. Chartsmith v1.2 adds variable error bars to its standard set of error bar types. Variable error bars allow users to provide error values for each data point in a series. In addition, dual XY, and asymmetrical error bars are also now supported. Asymmetrical error bars allow users to specify different types and values for the positive and negative error bars associated with each data point in a series. Download a free demonstration copy of Chartsmith v1.2 at http://www.blacksmith.com. Fully enabled copies of Chartsmith are priced at $129US. Educational discounts are provided for faculty at $99US and students at $69US. Chartsmith v1.2 is provided as a free upgrade from Chartsmith v1.0 and Chartsmith v1.1. Blacksmith Technologies delivers enterprise-class, commercial software and custom development services for Mac OS X and WebObjects. Blacksmith's first software product for Mac OS X is Chartsmith. Now in its third major release, Chartsmith represents the first of many commercial software products that Blacksmith plans for the Mac OS X and Web Object markets. In addition to developing a line of Mac OS X and Web Objects commercial products, Blacksmith also provides consulting services to companies and organizations developing commercial and custom software for Mac OS X and WebObjects. For more information, please visit www.blacksmith.com. ### Press/Analyst Contact Tony Rennier Blacksmith 703-771-9440 trennier@blacksmith.com Copyright 2003 Blacksmith Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Blacksmith and Chartsmith are trademarks of Blacksmith Technologies, Inc. Mac, Mac OS, the Mac Logo, Keynote, AppleScript, and Web Objects are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Excel, Powerpoint and Word are a trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Back to Press Information
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