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Tom Sawyer Software Releases Updated Java Visualization Software
Tom Sawyer Visualization, Version 9.1, Java Edition, Brings Dramatic Visualization and Layout Performance Improvements
Oakland, CA, May 20, 2010—Tom Sawyer Software, the leading provider of high-performance graph visualization, layout, and analysis solutions, announces the release of Tom Sawyer Visualization, Version 9.1, Java Edition.
The Tom Sawyer Visualization product line delivers sophisticated component technology that manages, reveals, and displays graphical, customized views of relational data, making it possible to immediately identify relationships, connections, and emerging patterns within the data. The software displays pathways, models, flows, dependencies, networks, and schematics in a comprehensive visual format.
New Benefits
Tom Sawyer Visualization, Version 9.1, Java Edition, brings dramatic visualization and layout performance improvements. The entire visualization and layout architectures have been optimized. For example, there are considerable rendering performance improvements and layout speed is improved by twenty to sixty percent. Further, the documentation has been significantly revamped.
This release also introduces improved support for multi-threaded applications, an Overview window that responds dynamically, and accelerated selection. Further, layout animation is enabled by default and XML reading and writing speed have increased by fifteen percent.
There have also been many new Apple Mac OS X refinements and documentation improvements. The tutorials have been enhanced to run more smoothly and there is a new Eclipse SWT tutorial.
All layouts perform twenty to sixty percent faster. When using circular layout, users can take advantage of improved edge labeling with dense drawings, enhanced clustering quality, and refined clustering options. The hierarchical layout style has improved edge labeling with polyline and orthogonal routing. In addition, orthogonal layout provides enhanced group constraint quality and symmetric layout provides enhanced routing with connectors.
New Features
Tom Sawyer Visualization, Version 9.1, offers new and enhanced features:
System
- New JDK 6.0 support
- New Apple Mac OS X 10.6 support
- New Microsoft Windows 7 support
- New Sun Solaris 10 support
Installation
- Improved installation program
- Improved licensing setup
Technology
- Enhanced support for multi-threaded applications
- Improved support for the Apple Mac OS X user interface
- Improved support for Eclipse SWT applications
- Accelerated XML reading and writing
Documentation
- New Eclipse SWT tutorial
- Revamped documentation
Visualization
- Drawing Representation
- Text UI elements now support a maximum width
- Data driven graphic examples show structural zooming
- User Interactions
- Accelerated selection
- Dynamic Overview response
- Improved layout command usability
Layout
- All layout styles
- Increased layout speed by twenty to sixty percent
- Circular layout
- Improved edge labeling with dense drawings
- Enhanced clustering quality
- Refined clustering options
- Hierarchical layout
- Improved edge labeling with polyline and orthogonal routing
- Orthogonal layout
- Refined labeling
- Enhanced group constraint quality
- Symmetric layout
- Improved edge labeling with dense drawings
- Enhanced handling of fixed point constraints
- Routing
- Reduced edge crossings
- Significantly enhanced routing with connectors
- Labeling
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