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by LittlePeter 1450 days ago
The charts in the article are PNG images. Yet the text in the charts is separate and is superimposed on the chart in precise position.

How is this done? Is the journalist manually CSS-positioning the text? Is there a library? An internal Economist tool?

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Asked a couple of days ago about a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31873761