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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

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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.
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November 29, 1999   USA
Mac Directory, Hot News

http://www.macdirectory.com

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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.
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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
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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.
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