Hi folks,
Ok, so I needed some diagrams. I wanted to sit on the comfort of my sofa, put them together and then export 'em as PDFs for another document. All good. Lots of people say lots of nice things about OmniGraffle so despite it's abnormally high cost for a productivity application, I purchased it.
I'm off to a roaring poor start and I wanted to check that there is nothing that I'm doing wrong.
So far, I've had three crashes (mostly when double tapping in a shape to edit text labels) in a matter of... well, virtually no time. I'm also finding the thing to be extraordinarily slow. I've edited some highly complex documents in Pages on the iPad and it has always rocked and rolled performance wise... I find OmniGraffle unusable with just a few shapes. The diagram I'm wrestling with right now has less than 20 shapes in total and it is dragging to the point that I can't change the size of anything now.
In the exact case I'm in right now on the iPad, if I zoom and then select a shape, the whole thing hangs for several seconds. If I touch anything in the meanwhile, terrible things happen. In fact, whilst typing this, I double checked. One of my shapes has now rotated, changed size and moved to somewhere it is not meant to be. Pressing UNDO hangs the application for... tick, tick... 5 seconds.
I must say, at this stage, I am incredibly disappointed. I feel that the reviewers of this application must be using a version that I am not using. I do not understand how this is usable for anyone at all.
I do understand that one must pay good money for good applications which is why I shelled out the 30 pounds (by far the most expensive iPad application I have) for the thing. Ok, it's three bottles of reasonable wine so it's not exactly going to have me living on the streets if I write this off, but frankly, at this stage I figure I'd rather have had the three bottles of wine. I'm writing this in the hope that I'm doing something stupid and that there is a button, check box or some other option that I'm using that is slowing this down to an absolute crawl.
Help me, Omni-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope for avoiding severe buyer's regret.
Ok, so I needed some diagrams. I wanted to sit on the comfort of my sofa, put them together and then export 'em as PDFs for another document. All good. Lots of people say lots of nice things about OmniGraffle so despite it's abnormally high cost for a productivity application, I purchased it.
I'm off to a roaring poor start and I wanted to check that there is nothing that I'm doing wrong.
So far, I've had three crashes (mostly when double tapping in a shape to edit text labels) in a matter of... well, virtually no time. I'm also finding the thing to be extraordinarily slow. I've edited some highly complex documents in Pages on the iPad and it has always rocked and rolled performance wise... I find OmniGraffle unusable with just a few shapes. The diagram I'm wrestling with right now has less than 20 shapes in total and it is dragging to the point that I can't change the size of anything now.
In the exact case I'm in right now on the iPad, if I zoom and then select a shape, the whole thing hangs for several seconds. If I touch anything in the meanwhile, terrible things happen. In fact, whilst typing this, I double checked. One of my shapes has now rotated, changed size and moved to somewhere it is not meant to be. Pressing UNDO hangs the application for... tick, tick... 5 seconds.
I must say, at this stage, I am incredibly disappointed. I feel that the reviewers of this application must be using a version that I am not using. I do not understand how this is usable for anyone at all.
I do understand that one must pay good money for good applications which is why I shelled out the 30 pounds (by far the most expensive iPad application I have) for the thing. Ok, it's three bottles of reasonable wine so it's not exactly going to have me living on the streets if I write this off, but frankly, at this stage I figure I'd rather have had the three bottles of wine. I'm writing this in the hope that I'm doing something stupid and that there is a button, check box or some other option that I'm using that is slowing this down to an absolute crawl.
Help me, Omni-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope for avoiding severe buyer's regret.
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