A comprehensive flowcharting and diagramming package for Windows 2000, Windows XP. Features full color and font support, multi symbol and border styles and auto routing of lines in multi styles. Multiple document support, drag and drop objects between documents. Also supports hyper text jumps, import of graphics into symbols and export of data to other applications, including standard clipboard formats and OLE. Support for international Unicode text.
Direct Interaction With Drawing Objects
In Chartist, there is no scripting or programming involved in creating a diagram. You interact directly with the drawing objects. To place a shape on the drawing, you click on the desired shape from the shapes palette, then position the shape where you want it. To move the shape, you just click on it and drag it. To stretch or shrink a shape, you select it, then graph of the sizing handles, and click and drag until you get the desired size.
Automatic Routing of Connections between Objects
Shapes can be connected with lines to indicate relationships or flows. In Chartist, you designate the beginning and ending points of a line, and Chartist will maintain that connection as you move the connected shapes around, and change the properties of the connection.
Full Featured Text Editing
The text in symbols can be in and typefaces supported by your system. There is a full featured text editor built into Chartist, that provides a very standard user interface for editing text.
Full Support of Unicode Text
Unicode is an international standard for encoding text. As such it supports many languages and symbols.
Color and Style Support
The individual shape borders, shape backgrounds, text and lines in Chartist drawings can be be in the colors you choose. Lines and borders can be in any desired thickness and can be solid, dashed or dotted.
Image Support
In addition to the hundreds of library shapes included with Chartist, you can import graphic images in a number of formats as objects in the drawing. Image formats include EMF, WMF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF. The images can also be re-sized as needed.
Graphics Export
Chartist will create graphics files containing all or a selected part of a drawing. The export formats include PNG, WMF, EMF, VML, and SVG formats. The previous two illustrations above are examples of PNG format created by Chartist.
