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| Background Layer Separate foreground and background layers. |
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| Hyperlinks Link figures and labels to web pages, documents, or diagrams. |
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| Connection Points Attach connectors anywhere on a figure, not only at the center |
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| Multiple Attach Modes Attach connectors at centers of figures, at the click point, or at pre-defined connection points |
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| Memos Add memos (text notes) to any figure or label, visible when hover over with the mouse |
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| Figure Labels Attach text labels outside a figure that stick to the figure when it moves or is copied. | |
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| Lateral Connector Labels Attach text labels to any connector above, below, or aside the connector line (not inline) |
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| Auto-Label Figures Define styles that automatically include an attached figure label |
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| Junction Dots Option to use dots to show when intersecting connectors connect |
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| Color Schemes Change the colors scheme of an existing diagram or subset of objects |
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| Containers Shapes and boxes that show 'groups' of others |
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| Active Containers Containers can automatically group sets of objects they contain |
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| Scale Scale a diagram and/or styles by a fixed amount. |
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| Import Styles From Import style definitions from another diagram |
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| Save As HTML Save diagrams as web pages including links and memos (as tooltips). | |
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| Multiple Sheets (pages) Each diagram can contain multiple sheets (essentially pages). | |
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| Diagram Types Symbol Sets |
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| Flowcharts Includes basic flowcharting symbols and templates |
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| Basic Block Diagrams Includes symbols and templates for simple block diagrams |
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| Additional Block Diagrams Includes more variety and advanced forms of block and design diagrams for business, database, and scientific work. |
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| Extension Symbols Includes free extension pack of technical symbols and diagram templates including ER (database) diagramming, org charts, logic diagrams, and more |
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| Network Diagramming Includes network diagramming symbols and templates, natively or as a free extension pack |
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| UML Diagrams and Symbols Includes UML symbol sets and templates for all UML2 diagram types plus non-standard extensions. |
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| Documentation | WizFlow | EDGE | LanFlow | UML | |
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| Online Help System Comprehensive integrated online help system |
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| User Guide Comprehensive illustrated user guide including contents, index, illustrations, and screen shots. |
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| UML Diagramming Guide Additional online help and separate user guide detailing how to work with UML contructs and UML components |
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| Advanced Features UML Support |
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| Multiple Text Areas Use shapes that contain more than one area for text |
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| Stretch Stretch is like resizing for figures with multiple compartments. One or more compartments change based on how the figure is stretched. Primarily for complex UML symbols. |
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| Stamp Connectors Define connector fragments including an optional text label that can be stamped into place in one click |
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| UML Terminology Alternative terminology to conform with UML specification such as Nodes and Paths. |
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| UML Pinnable Symbols Recognizes special UML symbols that snap together to create more complex symbols, including qualifiers, pins, ports, interfaces, activations, lifelines, terminators, entry and exit points, and messages. |
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| UML Associations Create association labels that include the optional directional arrow. |
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| UML Interfaces Interfaces snap to appropriate objects, are labeled automatically, and drag intelligently, aware of their location and surroundings. |
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| UML Message Sliding Messages attached to lifelines and activations slide along the sequences retaining horizontal or vertical orientation. |
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| Guillemets Guillemet symbols can be added using toolbar buttons or by typing consecutive '>>' or '<<' |
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| Collaboration Features | WizFlow | EDGE | LanFlow | UML | |
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| File Sharing Support File locking and read-only support to prevent contention and file corruption on multi-user systems and networked environments |
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| Free Reader Freely distributable diagram reader for others to read your diagrams without the product or a license |
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| Linking and Embedding in Documents OLE-enabled to allow copy/paste to documents of other programs, including Insert Object and Object Linking |
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| Common Features Text and Labels |
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| Full-featured Text Text within figures or labels can include a mixture of fonts, colors, sizes, and styles |
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| Text Wrapping Text can be configured to wrap within the existing dimensions of a figure or label |
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| Superscripts and Subscripts Superscripted and subscripted text is useful for mathematical and scientific applications |
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| Text Justification Text in figures or labels can be left, right, or center justified, plus vertical justification as well |
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| Flow Labels Attach text labels to the point where a connector meets a figure |
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| Inline Connector Labels Attach text labels to any connector inline (over) the connector line. |
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| Snap and Drop Labels Drop or snap labels into place as figure labels, connector labels, or flow labels, also attach and detach manually |
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| Rotate Text Limited text rotation capability - rotate labels (not figures) by 90 degrees left or right |
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| Configurable Line Spacing Spacing between lines of text can be customized in a wide variety of ways |
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| Tabs Use tabs to format text and add custom left, right, center, or decimal justified tab stops |
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| Label Background Color A label can be assigned a fill color for a background |
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| Automatic Text Scaling Label text automatically scales when the label is resized. Figures can be programmed this way as well |
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| Auto Expand Figures can be configured to automatically grow in size when the text grows |
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| Text Fields Insert automatically fields in text such as file name and file creation and save times. |
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| Common Features Lines and Connectors |
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| Connector Features Flip, snip, connect, attach, detach, add/remove arrows, and more |
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| Pre-defined Terminator Gallery Symbol gallery with many different arrowheads and other terminator symbols appropriate for each product |
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| Curved Connectors Connecting lines can be straight, rounded, curved, or smoothes |
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| Line Styles Lines can be any width, color, thickness, or pattern |
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| Jogs Automatically show jogs also called jumps or crossovers where a connector crosses another |
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| Flow Symbols Define symbols drawn along the length of any line |
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| Drop into Flows Drop figures into existing flows |
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| Arcs Curved connectors that follow the path of a circular arc. Includes support for full loops (self-transitions) and different stretch methods. |
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| Common Features Figures |
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| Versatile Figure Creation Many ways to create figures including style bar buttons, style bar combo box, drop menu, style chooser screen, and others. Methods include drag and drop, stamp, stamp-and-resize, lasso create, snap in place, and so on. |
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| Pre-defined Symbol Gallery Symbol gallery with a variety of categorized symbols |
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| Fill Gradients Attractive and versatile two-color fill gradients with many options and presets including any angle, intensity, linear, elliptical, bell curve, gamma-correction, platform, and spread control |
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| Copy/Paste Fill Easily copy and paste one figure's or style's fill to another |
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| Shadows High quality smooth drop shadows with programmable color, opacity, diffusion, and offsets |
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| Reshape Reshape complex shapes by dragging reshape handles |
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| Tinting Add a fill color to imported graphics to tint or color them to fit your diagram |
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| Outlines and Border Border lines for shapes can be any color, width, pattern or style |
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| Figure Snap Options Figures can be configured to snap to the grid in multiple ways including center snap, edges snap, height and width snap |
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| Adjustable Figure Margins Control the spacing between figure edges and the text |
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| Resize Resize in multiple ways by handles, dimensions, or making the same size as other objects. Option to keep center stationary. |
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| Common Features Editing |
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| Standard Editing Cut, copy, paste, delete, duplicate, drag-copy, drag-duplicate, select all, deselect all |
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| Fit to Text Feature | |
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| Shift and Nudge Use arrow keys and snap mode to shift or nudge objects |
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| Ordering Features Front, Back, Front One, and Back One |
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| Grouping Group objects together, plus Ungroup, Ungroup All, Regroup |
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| Multiple Undo Undo multiple operations |
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| Search and Replace Basic text find and replace tool |
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| Drag and Drop Drop diagrams into the program, or drop graphics directly into your diagram |
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| Common Features Layout and Arrangement |
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| Snap and Align Grid Configurable snap grid and alignment grid to help simplify layout - grid can be dots, lines, or neither |
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| Align Features | |
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| Space Evenly Features | |
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| Snap Straight Lines and connections are guided towards being straight even when conflicting with the snap grid | |
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| Center on Page Features | |
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| Common Features Interface and Usage |
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| English or Metric Choose English units (inches) or metric units (cm) |
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| Collapsible Style Bar The style bar can be collapsed to free up the entire screen for a diagram |
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| Customize Toolbars and Style Bar Add/remove toolbar buttons and configure the toolbars and style bars in the most convenient way. Three toolbar icon sizes. |
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| Check for Updates Feature checks for new version and optionally reminds you periodically to perform the check |
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| Rulers Optional ruler bars to help with size and layouts |
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| Tooltips Optional tooltips help show toolbar functions, style usage, color names, and more |
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| Multiple Color Palettes Select from a variety of color palettes |
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| Common Features Styles and Templates |
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| Style Categories Styles can be organized into categories for easier access and identification |
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| Custom Templates and Styles Create custom-defined styles and save them as your own diagram templates |
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| Styles Based On Create or change styles based on the properties of any object |
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| Reapply Style Feature Reapply the original style properties to any object. |
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| Common Features Navigation |
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| Scroll and Pan Features Scrollbars, drag scroll, mouse wheel scroll, arrow scroll, auto-scroll dragging, and more |
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| Zoom Features Zoom in, zoom out, zoom intervals, lasso zoom tool, zoom to page, zoom to page width, zoom to all or selected objects, mouse wheel zoom, keyboard zoom, and more |
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| Follow Hyperlinks Follow hyperlinks between diagrams and to web pages. Navigate forward and back like a browser |
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| Common Features File and Printing |
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| File Features Revert, Save All, Print all, Save Template, Save HTML |
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| Multiple Document Editing Open multiple diagrams, or multiple windows for the same diagram including standard tiling and cascading features |
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| Diagram Wizard Use the diagram wizard to set initial characteristics of a diagram |
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| Import Graphics Import graphics formats BMP, DIB, WMF, EMF, PNG, GIF, JPG, TIF. intelligently calculating bounds and shape | |
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| Export Graphics Export to graphics formats BMP, DIB, WMF, EMF, PNG, GIF, JPG, TIF | |
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| Poster and Virtual Page Layout Create diagrams of any size up to 62 inches. Divide into poster pages or virtual (printer) pages - adjustable margins |
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| Auto Save and Backup Automatically save or backup diagrams as you work |
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| Page Margins Fully configurable page margins including stitching margins between poster pages |
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| Crop Marks Optional crop marks on printed pages show where to trim and attach pages to create a poster |
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| Printing Print to any Windows printer, any paper size up to 62 inches. Virtual paper sizes not supported by printer. Print preview, print all, print set-up, multiple copies, portrait or landscape |
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| PDF Output While direct PDF output is not supported, any product can produce PDF files using a PDF printer driver such as the freeware doPDF product found at www.dopdf.com |
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