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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: October 15, 2008
- Total Downloads: 82,367
- Downloads last week: 826
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 30 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 03, 2009
Diagram Designer provides users with an opportunity to quickly design simple flow charts, which should appeal to business people. Though it has a snag with its text feature, the program's simplicity makes it a more attractive choice than other similar programs.
This download has an incredibly simple interface that should not take much getting used to, no matter what level of user you are. Happily, there are Help files on the Internet and within the program. One interface complaint comes from its ability to fill charts with color, since the palette is slightly hidden along the top. However, users will gravitate toward the simple click-and-drag shapes and arrows that will comprise their diagrams. The diagrams were simple to create and adjust if mistakes were made. With a variety of shapes and arrows, even the most complex business flow chart or organizational map can be laid out and labeled on the fly, unlike similar downloads. Our only gripe was with labeling--if users wish to add bold, italic or other font enhancements it must be done using a form of HTML code, which complicates matters for users used to clicking a button for such changes.
However, we felt this freeware program's text snag was easy to overlook since Diagram Designer created our chart much easier than similar products we've tested in the past. We recommend this program for anyone who needs diagrams in a hurry.
Publisher's description
From MeeSoft :Diagram Designer is a simple vector graphics editor for creating flowchart and diagrams. Its features are customizable template object palette, slide show viewer, import/export WMF, EMF, GIF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MNG, and PCX images, simple graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions, spellchecker, advanced pocket calculator with equation solver, MeeSoft Image Analyzer integration for bitmap image editing and extended file format support, and uses compressed file format for minimizing drawing file size.
Version 1.21 features new improved antialiasing algorithm.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.21 features new improved antialiasing algorithm.
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Version: Diagram Designer 1.21
"Excellent program full of capabilities."
Pros: The program produces exactally what it says. Simple diagrams are quickly produced and for more complex one, it takes a while to figure out where the really cool things are but "It's in there!"
Cons: Only thing that isn't a positive is that it doesn't seem to have a preview image available when you're in the File Open dialog box. More of a "nice to have" than a real "negative" issue.
Summary: You can build a real professional looking document with this software, and you can't beat the price, My sincere thanks to the developers for a top of the line product.
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Version: Diagram Designer 1.21
"Is there anything this program cannot do?"
Pros: Rich in features, flexible, intuitive.
Cons: Some commands require a little too many clicks.
Summary: It serves its purpose, I am very happy to have found it.
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Version: Diagram Designer 1.21
"Safe and Easy enough for a newbie to use w/many options"
Pros: I was able to quickly copy, paste, move, fill, group, add text. I downloaded five different flow chart programs, most were too technical or took too many steps for something simple. This was easy and fast. Better than Dia to me.
Cons: I found it difficult to adjust text box sizes quickly.
Summary: This is likely good for advanced users too, but if you are looking for a good easy to use straight forward flowchart program this is definitely worth a try. I wanted to use it to create a flow chart to plan the linking pattern of related articles f... read more >>
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