[Sigia-l] visio feature improvements

[Jon Lax]

OmniGraffle just released OmniGraffle Pro 3 which is quite impressive. It
now has Visio import export...


Jon


On 4/15/03 10:10 AM, "Christopher Fahey [askrom]" <askROM at graphpaper.com>
wrote:

> 
>> Why hasn't Adobe or Macromedia entered this space?
> 
> I am pretty kick-ass with Visio, actually, but I have been seriously
> considering switching to Flash as a wireframing/prototyping tool.
> Flash's Symbol/Instance object architecture alone might be enough to
> make it superior to Visio: I can make a sngle standard navigation
> element (symbol) and create instances of it throughout the doc, and it's
> much easier than Visio's bizzarro "document stencil". The basic drawing
> tools (text boxes, selecting objects, managing layers, locking layers,
> grid-snapping) are much easier to use than Visio's analogous features.
> And on top of all that, Flash lets you easily add some prototype-like
> functionality to the prototype: scrollbars that you can drag around,
> buttons that go somewhere when you click them, etc.
> 
> Two problems I foresee:
> 1) Auto-connecting lines for flowcharts and sitemaps (but again, I
> foresee Visio for wireframing mostly)
> 2) Printing (but I usually present my work digitally anyway, as PDF'd
> Visio docs)
> 
> Has anyone else tried this?
> 
> -Cf
> 
> [christopher eli fahey]
> art: http://www.graphpaper.com
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