Example: Square chart

Published 2015-09-25 | Author: Stefan Kottwitz

Pie charts are popular for showing proportions. A pie chart’s main characteristic is that all items usually sum up to 100 percent.

We will use the pgf-pie package. Its square option gives a quadratic design. We will add the scale font and color option.

Full explanation in Chapter 9, Creating Graphics: Drawing a pie chart

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% Square chart
% Author: Stefan Kottwitz
% https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook
\documentclass[border = 10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgf-pie}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \pie [square, scale font,
        color = {blue!10, blue!20, blue!40}]
    { 62/\TeX\ Live and Mac\TeX,
      32/MiK\TeX\ and Pro\TeX t, 6/Other \TeX }
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}