Its been a grind to get charting back in Gnumeric but at long last there is a framework in place. Its still a touch rough around the edges, with some tuning necessary in the libart backend, and lots of unfinished bells and whistles. However, it is quite modular, easy to understand, and has a decent interface to Gnumeric.

Here's a sample imported from xls

I'm not thrilled with the bleed through on bars with 0 separation due to antialiasing, and the fringing should also be tuned.

In other news Morten has been banging away at full throttle and has us mostly multi-head aware. He and Andreas have also been scrubbing text import/export to get tie down utf8 issues. The rest of the system is pretty much ready to freeze. Although 1.1.17 was not announced due to late breaking bugs, 1.1.18 is shaping up very nicely.