How to create charts and tables with Inkscape?

Question

Inkscape doesn't seem to support charts or tables, so what's the best way to create a chart/table and import it into Inkscape? Excel 2013 unfortunately doesn't seem to support svg.

Answer 1

Here's simple way to create table in Inkscape.... First, create rectangle with desired dimension. Then, underMenu>Edit choose Clone, then forward to Create tiled clones. Here you can set number of columns and rows. Click create or hit Enter. Your table is created. After, simply change the size of cells, play a little....To mention, this is not as good solution like creating in excel, but for something simple fair enough....

Do note that a table created as a SVG is going to lose it's "Structure" in the sense of semantics and accessibility. That may or may not be an issue for you, but if the PDF is for web distribution, for example, an SVG based PDF will be less accessible than a Table-based (HTML or Word) based PDF. However, for video, that's not really an issue at all. The biggest challenge with making a table in inkscape is that inkscape doesn't have a table tool. So everything has to be hand drawn.