At 10:19 AM -0800 3/4/03, Greg Noneman wrote: >I've been reading all the comments on ConceptDraw and OmniGraffle. >I have experimented with both of them and have had some minor >exposure (not favorable) to Visio on the PC. Maybe it's just my >familiarity with old tools, but I always find myself going back to >running ClarisDraw under Classic. Sure it doesn't have all the >bells and whistles of the new applications, but I still find it to >be the most straight-forward and intuitive drawing application that >I have used. I suspect I am not alone on this. I personally know >several people who still rely on ClarisDraw and ClarisDraft. > >As it now seems that Apple is again devoting resources to >application development, it sure would be nice to see an OS X native >drawing tool with the power and elegant simplicity of >Mac/ClarisDraw. It probably won't ever happen, but I couldn't >resist putting in my $.02. > I will jump in with a "Me Too" here. I have used OmniGraffle for some drawings, and for certain things it is great. It makes great org charts and simple block diagrams. For more complex things I seem to find it not doing what I want, and I seem to be looking for a work around for some of its "features". For detailed drawings, I find ClarisDraw under Classic much easier and faster. I would love an updated ClarisDraw. But I agree that it is highly unlikely. Not being able to read Visio files is the biggest problem that I have in being a rare Mac person in a Windows world. Sherman