Vidicarta 1.0

Vidicarta 1.0 allows you to draw and print charts of any hierarchy in the traditional topdown manner. You do not have to do any drag or drop or positioning of any of the blocks that make up the hierarchy.

An organization chart, a family tree, a bill of materials are some common examples of hierarchical data. Each item of such data can have text and/or a picture. Vidicarta draws charts representing these hierarchies automatically.

When using a program like Visio to draw such a chart, the user has to drag and drop shapes from a library to represent each item. The user has to pretty much decide where each item is to be placed and make the connections between items. Placement help is minimal: space items evenly, align items etc. If the page size is changed then the whole effort has to be redone. All this is done automatically by Vidicarta which could be visualized as an automated draughtsman.

Major Features:

1. Vidicarta uses proprietary placement algorithms (patent pending) to compute the page on which an items box needs to be placed and the position at which is to be placed.
   
2. These algorithms take into account the paper size. They provide cross-referencing from one part of a drawing to its continuation on a different page. They also break the text to fit a box size or increase the box to fit the text as desired by the user.
3. Vidicarta takes only minutes to draw a chart that consists of a hundred 8.5 x 11 inches pages  once the data has been entered.
4. If the page setup is changed from portrait to landscape redrawing takes the same amount of time.
5. Each item is represented by a box which contains the text, picture and any other information arranged into rows and columns.
6. Parent-child items are connected.
7. The user only enters the text and the picture file name for each item.
8. The program can be script driven to get this data from a database.
   
9. Vidicarta also allows pages of the layout to be saved as bitmap files so that a collage can be created without printing.

Enhancements: This is the first release.

Requirements:

• A default printer needs to be set up.
• Could even be printed to PDF.

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