Can’t adjust page sizes
In Page Setup, for a blank document or template it is impossible to set to landscape from portrait. If you want a landscape orientation, you have to open a template that already has a landscape orientation, delete its contents, and start from there.
not quite…
I’m always grateful for well designed easy to use free apps. This is a nice effort, when it works.
When it does work it’s easy to use, relatively intuitive, smooth and responsive. Ive found I can quickly build up flow charts with interconnects.
However it frequently locks up/freezes, with no way of recovering. Closing the app completely and restarting, with loss of work seems to be the only way to get it going again. This alone renders the app un-usable. Which is very unfortunate.
Some menus are in Japanese. I haven’t managed to find an option or setting to switch languages.
I’ll keep checking back for updates. But until the crash problem is fixed it’s not usable.
When it does work it’s easy to use, relatively intuitive, smooth and responsive. Ive found I can quickly build up flow charts with interconnects.
However it frequently locks up/freezes, with no way of recovering. Closing the app completely and restarting, with loss of work seems to be the only way to get it going again. This alone renders the app un-usable. Which is very unfortunate.
Some menus are in Japanese. I haven’t managed to find an option or setting to switch languages.
I’ll keep checking back for updates. But until the crash problem is fixed it’s not usable.
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Good for OTB
This is a great way to escape all of the subscriptions. My only real complaint is that the TEXT tools are so slow during input. It lags by at least 3-4 to complete a single sentence. It’s hard to rate any higher until that is fixed.
More like downgraded
Needs a lot of work. Performance issues. Language issues. Menu issues. Just issues every where.
It won’t print on my Mac.
When I click on “print” in the print dialog, nothing happens. It appears that this is a common problem. Ver 3 will print correctly, but not 5.
Ummmm
Ok so i think this one is bad i mean its so hard and i like the old one better
Used for FSD
I use this program to create finite state diagrams. This tool works well for that purpose. My only complaint is that I cannot attach an arrow to the initial state shape found in the UML State Machine shapes section in Flowchart Designer 5.
Unusable
I really wanted to like this application, but I’m running into a shape layout issue. After placing shapes and switching to the connection tool, I no longer have the ability to move existing shapes within the document—this is even after reselecting the pointer tool. Any attempt to reposition a shape instead creates a new arrow connection. This issue makes it impossible to clean up a diagram or make the layout changes. Without this ability the application is just not usable enough to be useful. I would be more than happy to update my review once this issue is addressed.
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The best
The best, it is not even close.
vsd files not recognised
I bought this to use vsd files but when I try to import them the files are not recognised
Started off hopeful........but
Wasted time. Could do basic flow chart
Great Tool
Flowchart 5 is easy to use! I picked up on using it immediately and it worked well
Not backwards compatible
I recently installed version 5 but I can’t open any files I made with Flowchart Designer 3 (which uses .drawing files).
Perfect
I have no idea what could be done to make this better.
Works pretty well but the CPU usage is kind of extreme
Starts lagging really hard when I'm editing text boxes. CPU usage jumped to 93%.
Easy to learn and effective
This is much better than trying to do it in Keynote. Auto-connect feature makes it easy to join boxes/shapes together. Very low one-time cost (Cdn$13) is worth it.
Disappointing
I thought this would be a step forward from V3. But it has an annoying tips window that follows you around like a stray dog and, worst of all, it won’t let you either print or export to pdf or Adobe pdf formats. Useless to commercial users if you can’t do that!
Good basic app
Not bad for a basic flowchart app. Would prefer more traditional flowchart boxes/containers, but can work with what’s here. Easy to use. Hoping for more like Visio, but this does do the trick. Some options on page size would be nice.
It Does The Basics
I’m a business analyst, and I normally use Microsoft Visio to quickly flowchart workflows, processes, procedures, systems, and events. Flowchart Designer 5 handles the basics, but it is much slower, as in displaying one letter from a typed word every second. Then I have to save my work and reopen it to get normal speed. Also, it is more difficult to align shapes, draw connectors, and format the individual words inside a shape. With Flowchart Designer 5, all the text in a shape gets the same format (alignment, color, etc.). Visio costs only $5 per month, and for that I get very functional mature charting tool that allows me to quickly create charts as I interview end users (I create charts instead of taking notes). Flowchart Designer 5 isn’t bad for basic charts, but for what I do, I’m going back to Visio.
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Very Difficult to use
It looks as though it is full of lovely features. But I found it very difficult to use, especially drawing arrows between objects, It seemed to me (I may wrong) That you could only 1 arrow into an object and one arrow2 out and the arrow out had to be on the side with most space. I couldn’t get it to work for me so I gave up.
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