| ConceptDraw 1.8.5: Reviews of Year 1999 |

December 14, 1999 USA
Review
Rating: 5 out of 5
ZDNet
http://hotfiles.zdnet.com
ZDNet rated ConceptDraw with their highest 5 Star Rating:
"If your organization is looking for a powerful drawing app, ConceptDraw should be considered."
Click here to read the whole review.
|
 |
December 2, 1999 France
Mac Generation
New product
Rating: N/A
http://www.macgeneration.com
Mac Generation announces ConceptDraw:
"ConceptDraw est un logiciel de conception de schemas, organigrammes et graphiques. Une version de demonstration est disponible."
|
 |
December 2, 1999 France
Vnunet·fr, Actualites
New product
Rating: N/A
http://www.vnunet.fr
ConceptDraw announced on Vnunet·fr by Francois Tonic
...
Il existe peu de logiciels sur Mac, dedies a la
creation de graphiques, d'organigrammes ou de
schemas. En depit de leurs fonctions avancees, les
outils de traitement de textes ou de mise en page
ne suffisent pas toujours. Computer System
Odessa comble ce vide en proposant un logiciel
specifique, Concept Draw, qui tente de repondre
aux besoins les plus divers des chefs de projets,
des analystes programmeurs, des commerciaux ou
des etudiants. Concept Draw est un logiciel de
creation fonctionnant comme un logiciel de mise en
page ou d'illustration vectorielle.
Si Concept Draw est disponible sur Mac et sur PC, il
peche par son manque d'integration MacOS : pas
de QuickTime, pas d'AppleScript. Sur ce dernier
point, il inclut tout de meme la compatibilitŠ avec
OLE de Microsoft, c'est mieux que rien. Mais OLE
sur Mac n'est pas tres performant et peu utilise.
Concept Draw g¨re le multi-page, pratique pour les
longs documents et accepte plusieurs formats
graphiques (PICT, GIF, JPEG, BMP). La prise en main
est convenable mais des assistants auraient ete
les bienvenus. L'ergonomie et l'interface sont
correctes.
...
|
 |

November 29, 1999 USA
Mac Directory, Hot News
http://www.macdirectory.com
...
ConceptDraw is a powerful yet easy-to-use program for creating
business drawings (flowcharts, organizational and marketing
diagrams and many more). To every object in your drawing you can
apply line colors, fill colors, fill and shadow patterns, including
gradients. Any object may contain text, which you can edit and format
using a powerful built-in text editor. With the Snap tool, you draw
accurately and effortlessly grid lines, guide lines or other objects (at
your wish) may pull objects so they jump in place. The Glue tool,
guide lines, Alignment and Distribution tools will the take care of such
tedious tasks as aligning objects, creating equal spacings and other or
moving several objects at once.
ConceptDraw's intelligent connectors automatically adjust their paths
when you reposition objects, avoiding crossing other objects. And...
every object can be turned into a connector. Using connectors you can
easily create diagrams of all kinds: from technological and business
processes to organizational schemes and project plans.
With the help of formulas you can create intelligent custom objects,
and program them to act in a desired way on the drawing page, which
will give you virtually unlimited control over them.
Since ConceptDraw is cross-platform, all its files (documents,
templates, libraries, workspace files) open and work with either the
Windows or the MacOS version. File formats are 100% compatible,
and no conversion is needed! Additionally you can use the importing
and exporting functionalities for pictures that were saved in a variety
of file formats like Windows bitmap, metafile, GIF, JPEG and PICT.
Plus, you can insert hyperlinks into your drawings and assign them to
objects, creating Internet-integrated documents, create on-the-fly web
pages, send documents by e-mail.
...
|
 |
November 22, 1999 Japan
DBSoft
Masato Nakai, DBSoft.
Software Overview:
DBSoft believes that ConceptDraw is a well designed drawing program.
ConceptDraw for Windows has the look-and-feel of Windows Operating System.
Also, the buttons and commands are very intuitive, so the any user should
feel comfortable using this program. ConceptDraw also has the comprehensive
templates for different industries. The templates will add more value to
this software product. Due to the tight schedule, we were unable to study
all features of ConceptDraw, but we are very impressed at the quality of
the software.
Competitions:
DBSoft has looked for the similar products in the market, and we found
iGrafx Profession, FlowCharter, Visual Thought, and SmartDraw. iGrafx
Profession, and FlowCharter were developed by Mirograx, Inc.Visual Thought
was developed by Confluent, Inc. SmartDraw was developed by Smart Draw, Inc.
All competing products have been reported in popular computer/software
magazines in US, and received good reports. As we reviewed their
specifications, none of the competing products have the Macintosh versions.
Their primary target seems to be Windows Platforms.
The MacOS version of ConceptDraw will attract wider audience, and ensure its position in the Macintosh graphics
software market.
|
 |
November 19, 1999 USA
Apple Developer Connection (ADC) News, No. 182
http://developer.apple.com/devnews/devnews111999.html
[12]Useful Utilities: Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0.5, ConceptDraw 1.1 , IomegaWare Tools 2.1, Reaction Bundle, StuffIt 5.5, StuffIt 5.x Updaters
...
ConceptDraw 1.1 from Computer Systems Odessa is a powerful, easy-to-use tool
for creating software flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, marketing
diagrams, and more. 67 task-related, upgradable object libraries provide you
with more than 1,600 objects which you may need for creating flowcharts,
office layouts, electronic schemes, or other diagrams. It's cross-platform,
it allows for embedded hyperlinks, and it includes a built-in spreadsheet
with calculation capabilities.
...
Back to Top
|
|
|