Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!zaphod!bobd From: bobd@zaphod.UUCP (Bob Dalgleish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Hierarchy drawing software? Message-ID: <4198@zaphod.UUCP> Date: 26 Mar 91 16:24:58 GMT References: <95272@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Develcon Electronics Limited,Saskatoon, SK, Canada Lines: 42 In article <95272@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: > Are there any Mac applications that can automate the drawing >of hierarchies of the following type: > a > /|\ > b c d > /\ /\ >and > b > / >a-c > \ > d > Note that I want diagonal lines to connect the nodes and I >usually don't want boxes around nodes. > I've seen an add for something called TopDown. Will this do >what I need? A program that will also let me produce flow diagrams >would be an added benefit. The program that I have been using for awhile is DiagramMaker from Action Software. It will do trees in any of four orientations, with any of three line styles (angled as above, squared off, angle then square) and two arrow styles. Best of all it will do them from a text outline, including one imported from an outliner. It also allows the box style to be set before or after the tree is created. I also use it for drawing arbitrary diagrams that I use for explaining concepts or designs. Action Software Suite 122 1507 East Franklin Street Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 -- -- * * * Remember: I before E except after DALGL * * *-- Bob Dalgleish bobd@zaphod.UUCP