ConceptDraw MEDICAL 1.8.5 review

ConceptDraw MEDICAL is a special edition of ConceptDraw for medical and biochemical specialists.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Computer Systems Odessa Buy Now Price: $249.00 Updated: 13 Mar 2006

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ConceptDraw MEDICAL is a special edition of ConceptDraw for medical and biochemical specialists. Includes a large collection of specialized objects and images.

ConceptDraw MEDICAL will help you illustrate lectures, presentations, materials for teaching medicine. Diagrams and charts make information easier to convey and perceive. You don't need to have drawing skills - the program is easy to use and contains a lot of pre-drawn objects and images.

ConceptDraw MEDICAL will be helpful to specialists of the following profile:
• General medicine
• Biochemistry
• Immunology
• Surgery
• Molecular biology.

Here are some key features of "ConceptDraw MEDICAL":
Large collection of thematic libraries and images
Drag-and-drop approach, requires no artistic skills
Export to most popular formats
Compatible with PowerPoint and ConceptDraw Presenter.

Limitations:
30 days demo.

What's New:
GENERAL
10 new medical libraries added for the Microbiology and Biochemistry fields:
Microbiology:
BacterialCells.cdl,
Colonies.cdl,
MicrobiologicalLab.cdl,
Microbiology.cdl.

Biochemistry:
EnzymesCoenzymes.cdl,
Glycolysis.cdl,
CitricAcidCycle.cdl,
PentoseCycle.cdl,
RespirationPhosphorilation.cdl,
SmallMolecules.cdl.

Improved set of medical templates and new samples added.
The version adds support for the ConceptDraw XML format (Import and Export). This lets you generate a visual document from its textual description, and vice versa, save a full description of the document in simple textual format.
The new menu option (Help / Get New Version) makes it convenient to download updates to the application through the Internet.
The Find/Replace Text feature (available in the Edit menu) gives you more convenience in editing the content of the current page.
The program adds more interactivity to the documents: for a hyperlink to another ConceptDraw document, you can specify which page of the target document should be opened.
New shortcuts for zooming a document have been added:
1) Cmd+Shift+Z (Mac) / Ctrl+Shift+Z (PC) - activate the Zoom Box mode;
2) Cmd+0 (Mac) / Ctrl+Shift+0 (PC) - set zoom to Whole Page.

Bugs fixed:
PowerPoint import/export improved.
Corrections and improvements have been made in the export to EPS, PDF and EMF.
A number of minor bugs fixed.

MACINTOSH PLATFORM
It is now possible to copy/paste objects across the applications of the ConceptDraw line via the system Clipboard.
The Copy / Paste mechanism improved: the Paste from Clipboard operation is no longer needed, as the Paste command works correctly both with native ConceptDraw objects and the objects put onto the Clipboard from other applications.
The toolbar buttons and icons have been updated according to the Mac OS X style.
The performance of the File / Send command improved.
The Cmd+H shortcut now lets you hide the application (in Mac OS X).
The shortcut for vertical flipping has been changed to Cmd+Opt+H.
This version fixes the problem with reading outlines with the UNIX line endings.

Bugs fixed:
The Option modifier key in text editing is now processed correctly.