>We need a graphical tool capable to creating a graphic based on the regular components of data that would be required, save that as a GIF, so I can have the ASP.NET application to include that image in a page. Any recommendations on the standards in regards to this?
Did you look at Gimp?
http://www.gimp.org/Not sure about what you want to do but overall this tool seems very good.
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