[Sigia-l] visio feature improvements

[Jesse James Garrett]

David Heller wrote:
> Now, that being said almost all of this requires a pretty neato VB
> programmer to do well, so most of it goes really unused by most of us on
> this list. It can be done, but it is way too complex to do for the masses.
> 
> Visio was never intended to be a GUI/IA tool like it is today. Like the web
> itself it is an expansion of a tool into an are not completely compatible
> with its primary design purpose.
> 
> As for switching to a Mac just to use OmniGraffe. I wonder how many of us
> could make that sale to our managers? Spend $3500 on a new computer (I use a
> kick-ass laptop) + hundreds if not thousands on licenses for all the
> software you need, just so you can use a piece of Mac software? Hmmm? Seems
> a tad problematic to me. But hey that new software is only $100?

Might be cheaper than hiring a VB programmer to hack Visio into a more
suitable tool for the job.

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