[Sigia-l] And then there's Inspiration

[David Heller]

Ok, I don't get it.
Besides 2 issues I have never had a problem w/ Visio and those two issues
alone are no reason to leave it. MS is just as buggy as everyone else
putting out software on a regular release cycle.

Issues:
1. PDF problems. I was hoping Acrobat 6 was going to take care of them, but
it didn't. For some reason PDF doesn't like Martlett.

2. Mac compatibility. I haven't worked any place in 5 years where this has
been a problem.

The HTML rendering capabilities of Visio are quite amazing and when you want
to take paper prototypes and bring in some clickable prototyping it is very
useful to do and very easy to make.

Its use of background pages instead of templates is also good and finally
the stenciling is also very good.

For all those on an MSDN I really recommend trying out v2003 as there are
some great improvements in terms of smoothness and overall drawing tools. A
lot more tools for GUI development too.

-- dave

-----Original Message-----
From: ashk at ashk.org [mailto:ashk at ashk.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:57 PM
To: Todd R.Warfel; David Heller
Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] And then there's Inspiration

Or perhaps that they have given up on the buggy Microsoft OLE model that it
is based on...
;)

-a
>That is an advantage. Unfortunately, it's not one that a lot of UE 
>people I've dealt with know about or use. Perhaps it's not obvious, or 
>it's perceived as being to difficult to do, or there's another reason?
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>
>On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 12:05 PM, David Heller wrote:
>
>> Then there is the programability of Visio. The ability to embed it 
>> into a word document as is and have it linked instead of ad hoc so 
>> that changes to the visio are maintained in the word doc, etc. etc.
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>Cheers!
>
>Todd R. Warfel
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