YWorks Updates Popular Free Product - YEd 3.8

Online, October 12, 2011 (Newswire.com) - yWorks, a leading provider of professional diagramming components for Java, Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, and .NET applications, today updated their popular free product yEd. yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly create diagrams manually or import external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button.

Major new features:

* Initial support for shapes from Microsoft Visio®. Shape stencils of Visio XML files (*.vsx, *.vdx) can now be converted into node symbols.
* Launched new online support resources: the yEd Graph Editor manual is now available online, as is a new forum for yEd related questions and yEd feature requests.

Product summary
Use yEd Graph Editor to quickly create flow charts, business process (BPMN) and UML diagrams, organization charts, mind maps, Entity Relationship diagrams, and many other kinds of diagrams, graphs, and networks. Choose from a wide range of highly sophisticated layout algorithms to automatically arrange diagrams in no time. An intuitive and visually appealing user interface makes creating diagrams fun. Once a diagram has been created, it is easy to save, print, or export it to popular formats like PDF, SWF, EMF, SVG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, or HTML image maps.

Availability
yEd is a free product available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The software can be directly launched or downloaded from the yEd home page: www.yworks.com/yed

About yWorks
yWorks specializes in the development of professional software solutions that enable the clear visualization of diagrams and networks. yWorks has brought together efficient data structures, complex algorithms, and advanced techniques that provide excellent user interaction. Our yFiles product family offers high quality diagramming for Java and .NET applications as well as for browser applications based on Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, or Ajax technology.

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