Commercial software
- Symantec Visual Cafe for Java
- A commercial Java development environment, which I bought
one copy of. You can try it out, but please be careful
as we do not have a site license.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Yah, it sucks, but ya gotta have it.
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Aladdin Ghostscript
- OK, not commercial, but it goes with Acrobat. You need
all of these:
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Local copy of gs510ini.zip, configuration, initialization, and example files,
805k
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Local copy of gs510w32.zip, MS-Windows 32-bit,
556k
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Local copy of gs510fn1.zip, Ghostscript standard fonts,
1143k
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Local copy of gsv24w32.zip, GSView, Win32, 554k
1143k
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Macromedia Freehand
- Freehand (back in the days when it was called Aldus Freehand) used
to be the best diagramming program for the Mac. Version 7 costs $125
at Scholar's Workstation, but I wouldn't buy it because version 8 has
been announced. You can download a crippled demo (no file saving,
exporting, or help (!)) from their site.
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Visual Thought
- A tool specifically for drawing box and arrow
diagrams! Runs on Windows and Solaris.
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Adobe Illustrator
- The competition to Freehand, I guess. You can download a crippled
demo version.
- Mayura Draw
- Hey, this one appears to be free! You can apparently use it to
edit Postscript files (in conjunction with Ghostscript), and generate
vector graphics in PDF.
- Visio Professional
- Visio, I have been told, is the best drawing package for
Windows... Unfortunately you can't download a demo program and they
don't even put prices anywhere on their page, but you can
request a a demo CD:
- Adobe PageMill
- I am interested in seeing if the visual site builders are any
good. Adobe have demo versions of their 2.0 product and their 3.0 beta
product. When I installed the 3.0 demo on my home machine, it
complained about the file "urlmon.dll" missing. So below
is also a copy of one I pulled from the version 2.0 demo.
- Microsoft FrontPage
- MS FrontPage appears to have pretty good navigation support... It's
also easier to get than PageMill..
