How to create historical Gantt chart in Linux?

Question

I need to create a Gantt timeline with dates from 19th century. Can anybody recommend a program that could handle that?

Answer 1

Since you tagged it with tex, here's an approach using gantt.sty from this page: A LaTeX package for drawing gantt plots using pgf/tikz.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{gantt}
\usepackage{pdflscape}

\begin{document}
  \begin{landscape}
  \scalebox{0.8}{
  \begin{gantt}[xunitlength=0.5cm,fontsize=\small,titlefontsize=\small,drawledgerline=true]{10}{48}
    \begin{ganttitle}
      \titleelement{2009}{7}
      \numtitle{2010}{1}{2012}{12}
      \titleelement{2013}{5}
    \end{ganttitle}
    \begin{ganttitle}
      \numtitle{6}{1}{12}{1}
      \numtitle{1}{1}{12}{1}
      \numtitle{1}{1}{12}{1}
      \numtitle{1}{1}{12}{1}
      \numtitle{1}{1}{5}{1}
    \end{ganttitle}
    \ganttbar{task 1}{2}{17}
    \ganttgroup{a group of tasks}{6}{18}
    \ganttbar{task 2}{5}{10}
    \ganttbar[pattern=crosshatch,color=blue]{task 3}{15}{3}
    \ganttbar{task 4}{20}{3}
    \ganttcon{15}{4}{20}{6}
    \ganttbar{task 5}{15}{5}
    \ganttbarcon[color=red]{task 6}{20}{5}
    \ganttbarcon{task 7}{30}{5}
  \end{gantt}
  }
  \end{landscape}
\end{document}

A similar approach using pstricks is provided by pst-gantt.

Answer 2

GanttProject

I have been using GanttChart a long time ago, it was pretty good for simple project scheduling (if this is what you want). It is still active and maintained. It's based on Java and works on Linux too.

The project web page is: GanttProject.biz

And the download page for the latest release (2.5.2 as of writing)

Answer 3

Openproj can help you. But depends what you want, it doesn't work because it's prepared for Windows. Another simple program that you can use is called "Planner". That it's just for Linux.