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In article <1991May9.190850.25384@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, sjhg9320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Jerome Howard) writes:
> Kaleidagraph and Igor are very good for Scientific and Engineering
> purposes, but DeltaGraph produces much better output on Postscipt devices
> and is one heck of a lot easier to learn and has much better documentation
> and technical support. Deltagraph also lets you directly import CricketGraph,
> Excel, PICT2, and EPSF files.

But you've overlooked the most serious shortcoming of DeltaGraph: it's
a dog. We purchased it to do exactly what has been described here, and
it should have been called Beta-Graph, as far as we can tell. Constantly
quitting unexpectedly, out of memory, reverting to old data sets after
long hours of editing (grrrr....), only one data file can be open at a
time even under multifinder, odd behavior with colors (for example, axis
ticks and numbers are sometimes printed in 'white', despite being black
on the screen, so what prints on white paper? Nothing, that's what...).
Well, I could go on and on -- in fact, our lab bug report is now over
twenty pages long, but tech support has been horrible, insisting that
it must be our system software (we've used 6.05 and 6.07, no difference),
or INIT conflicts (we've tried on three different computers which share
NO INITs), or, well, we don't know but it's certainly not OUR fault. Click.
I've slammed this package before, and I'll continue to do so until they
release a decent piece of work. The current version is awful. (It has
potential, to give it credit. If it were executed properly, it could
be very nice software. Maybe in the next version....).

My ten cents (it was a long post :-) ) worth.

Josh Hayes, Zoology, Miami of Ohio
jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu