I am using V4 for some time now but I never felt attracted to switch to V5. There was too much emphasis on 3D charts which I find rather useless for a classical 2D data sets (thats what family trees are: 2D!)
I think it was V5.4 where they finally made 2D Charts editable but with the current V5.5 is still not perfect. Its a major challenge when the number of persons increase to distribute all graphical elements over one or several pages and still make everything readable and "pretty". I would hope for some more advanced graphics features:
- in addition to manual layout some auto-aligment/adjustements functions
- there are no graphical templates! When you edit a diagramm it is stored as graphical objects with all reference to the actual data base lost. Thus when you change one detail of information for a certain person you have to start your diagram layout from scratch again!
- more control over the layout of text within a diagram box. Again not as a one shoot manual edit but rather defining templates.
MacFamilyTree
Genealogy software with many advanced features.
Version: 5.6.7
Diagrams getting better but still not as it should be
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Emilia Saturday, June 27 2009 @ 04:15 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
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