What's New (1 January 1997)

Visual Thought is coming to Windows 95 and NT!
We invite you to participate in our early evaluation and purchase plan, which includes free use of the Visual Thought 1.3 pre-release until the commercial shipment.
Please contact Confluent for more information.

What's New (10 May 1996)

Visual Thought can export transparent GIF images for Web site development! Make a simple change to a configuration file to enable this!

What's New (26 April 1996)

Two new palettes are available for download from this Web site.

• New circuit palette (circuit2.tar.Z 12kb)

  This palette contains symbols that prevent connections from "jumping" between terminals.

• SDL (Specification and Description Language) palette (sdl.tar.Z 8kb)

  This palette containing SDL symbols for telephony applications was produced according to specifications provided by AT&T/Lucent

What's New (20 April 1996)

Confluent has released two more modules for the "plug-in" export facility in Visual Thought 1.2.

• Imagemap export

  Export your diagrams to the Web! Visual Thought now exports imagemap information for images! Both server-side (NCSA HTTPd) and client-side (Spyglass) imagemap formats are supported.

• FrameMaker 5 'import by reference' of FrameMaker Interchange Format (MIF) files

  The FrameMaker Interchange Format (MIF) export capability has been upgraded to allow 'import by reference' into FrameMaker 5 documents.

What's New (30 November 1995)

A white paper describing the benefits of Visual Thought for software developers is available on-line at this site. For the free printed copy (18 pages, illustrated), please send e-mail to info@confluent.com.

What's New (16 October 1995)

Visual Thought 1.2

• Support for HP-UX!! Visual Thought now runs on SunOS, Solaris, and HP-UX 9 or 10. Customers on support will simply be able to install version 1.2 and run on HP-UX machines immediately -- no hassles with new license managers or license keys.

• Many new export formats, including:
  • MIF (Maker Interchange Format), allowing you to see and edit your Visual Thought images in FrameMaker
  • EPSI (EPS Interchange), providing a bitmap preview in exported EPS files
  • Sun Raster
  • XWD (X Window Dump)
  • TIFF
  • JPEG
  • ...plus many, many more!

• Plug-in translator technology, allowing you to export and filter any information available in Visual Thought to create new files or send output to other programs. For example, with this general plug-in translator mechanism, you can generate HTML, or save Visual Thought diagrams to your own proprietary file format.

• New shapes, palettes, and examples to support the HP Fusion and Objectory object-oriented software diagramming notations.

• Computer component clipart for network diagramming.

• Additional support for Entity-Relationship and Gane & Sarson diagramming.

• A FAQ and a library of Tech Notes.

• Plus over a hundred enhancements and bug fixes.

For more information about this and future releases, please contact Confluent.

Confluent, Inc. * 400 Spear Street, Suite 207 * San Francisco, CA 94105
800-780-2838 and 415-764-1000 tel * 415-764-1008 fax * info@confluent.com

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