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OmniGraffle 5 shipping now
The Omni Group has announced that OmniGraffle 5 is final and available for download and purchase. OmniGraffle is a brilliant template-based diagramming application that makes it a snap to draw up a flow-chart or schematic. As we noted when the first beta of version 5 was released, the latest OmniGraffle adds many important new features including support for Visio formats, a new layout engine, support for Bézier lines and shapes and much more. OmniGraffle comes in two versions, a standard version for $99.95 and a Professional version for $199.95 with an extended feature set (e.g. greater Visio support, subgraphs and more). Upgrades from previous versions are $39.95 (Standard) and $139.95 (Pro), with other options available for family pack licenses.
Update: To upgrade from a previous Pro version to version 5 Pro it's $74.95; it's $139.95 to upgrade to version 5 Pro from any previous version of Standard.
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Ron green said 10:36AM on 3-06-2008
The upgrade for the pro version is 74.95 not 139.95
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soumya.ray said 11:21AM on 3-06-2008
I got a free upgrade to 5 b/c I bought 4 just a couple of weeks ago.
One very big deal for me in version 5: Copying diagrams and pasting them into MS Word now works flawlessly. Earlier, people would try every trick of exporting to TIFF or PDF or whatever and the results were, meh...
Right now, I can paste into word as either native picture or pdf and the diagrams are perfect... even when i reopen the word doc on a PC - no more "get a quicktime decompresser please" message. Granted I just started using Word 2008 for Mac, but I think its still primarily due to the new Omnigraffle.
Also note, the new trial versions of Omnigraffle now expire after 14 days, whereas earlier I believe they didn't expire but just limited you to 20 objects per sheet.
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Todd Sieling said 11:31AM on 3-06-2008
Upgrade to Pro from Standard is 139.95, but if you have Pro in v4 then it's just 80 bucks I think.
I love Omnigraffle so much. I ambushed their group at the SFO airport after Macworld to chat a bit and tell them what a great job they've done. With v5, I started playing with the beta and ended up doing design work for a whole project with it, through the entire beta, and coincidentally that project launched yesterday when Omnigraffle went final. I like to think we co-celebrated :)
Seriously though version 5 is a really nice update, and if you use it a lot it's well worth the upgrade price.
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J said 12:45PM on 3-06-2008
Have been using OmniGraffle for a process-mapping exercise, and my colleagues have been using Casewise. When I showed them how easy and intuitive OmniGraffle was, they were rather jealous - and then I exported to html and posted the results online and they were beyond impressed.
Having said that, $200 is one limb too many. I doubt many could justify that cost, no matter how seemingly genius the software is...
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Joshua Jackson said 4:06PM on 3-06-2008
I have to say, I haven't tried v5 yet and doubt I will. I use Visio (in Parallels) and was not at all impressed by OmniG. Not to mention the high cost and lack of academic discounts. As long as I can get Visio for $10 I see no reason to even consider OmniG.
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Malfoy Roark said 10:11PM on 3-06-2008
I use omnigraffle 4 and Visio and find it very hard to get away from Visio.
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Ondrej Rudolf said 1:30PM on 3-12-2008
Hi,
OG is a great thing - Visio is for engineers, this one works great for the rest of us. Anyway, two things I don't like:
1 - lack of diagram styles - the few available don't work much and I thought that v5 will give us something 21st-century-styled not that microsoft-like crap.
2 - v5 does not/does strangely work with master canvases - one of the major advantages of OG. Why it is not in the Canvases sidebar anymore? Now I edit a master in every canvas? Or is it just when opening a v4 document, the master becomes a shared layer? Confusing.
I don't see many reasons to upgrade (from Pro 4) - interface design change not impressive, no added styles, no added stencils, confused back-compatibility.
For 75 bucks? Thanks, maybe later.
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