While preparing some document in last week, I wanted to draw a Gantt chart to visualize a time line of a project. I tried different GUI based tools but I didn't like them. At the end, I decided to find out whether there's any Latex package available to get my task done. Luckily, I found it. For this purpose, first of all, we need to have a style file called gantt.sty which you can download from here. Then we need to compose our gantt chart definition in a .tex file. Following is such an example gantt chart definition which I saved with the file name my_gantt_chart.tex in the same directory as the style file.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 | \documentclass{article} \usepackage[pdftex,active,tightpage]{preview} \setlength\PreviewBorder{2mm} \usepackage{gantt} \begin{document} \begin{preview} \begin{gantt}{7}{12} \begin{ganttitle} \titleelement{\textbf{Year 2015}}{12} \end{ganttitle} \begin{ganttitle} \titleelement{\textbf{Jan}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Feb}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Mar}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Apr}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{May}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Jun}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Jul}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Aug}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Sep}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Oct}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Nov}}{1} \titleelement{\textbf{Dec}}{1} \end{ganttitle} \ganttbar[color=green]{\textbf{Phase-1: Design and prototype implementation}}{0}{3} \ganttbarcon[color=blue]{\textbf{Phase-2: Pilot deployment and field trials}}{3}{6} \ganttbarcon[color=red]{\textbf{Phase-3: Full scale deployment and evaluations}}{9}{3} \end{gantt} \end{preview} \end{document} |
Now we can generate the PDF file by issuing the following command in the terminal.
pdflatex my_gantt_chart.tex
Following is a screenshot of the output PDF I received.
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