What's new in Visustin v5

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Visustin Editor

Edit your flow charts with Visustin v5! After flowcharting your code automatically with Visustin you can now edit the charts. Add comments, restructure the logic, adjust the shapes and apply a new layout.

Visustin v5 is a major version upgrade. This page lists the improvements for existing users. New to Visustin? Read the Visustin home page for an introduction.

Major improvements in Visustin v5

Edit flow charts. Visustin Editor lets you edit the automatically created charts. Insert comments, add shapes, highlight important points, adjust links, fine-tune the layout. Load the chart back to continue editing later. [Pro Edition]

Draw flow charts manually. Visustin Editor lets you draw flow charts from scratch with the mouse. Document your business processes. Plan your systems before building them. [Pro Edition]

Jobs. Run pre-defined bulk flowcharting jobs. Run Visustin from a batch file in unattended mode. You can integrate flowcharting as a part of your application's build process to keep technical documentation always up-to-date. [Pro Edition]

Save and load TIFF flow charts.

Bulk save everything in a multi-page TIFF. [Pro Edition]

New and updated languages. Support added for ColdFusion and XSLT. Important updates for COBOL, Delphi and Fortran 90. (see below)

Flow chartUML2 alternative
Flow chart example UML activity diagram example
If x < 10 Then y = 1

More improvements

[Pro Edition] Visio export runs in the background. Keep working on other charts meanwhile.
[Pro Edition] Visio export minimizes the crossing of Yes/No links.
[Pro Edition] Bulk export puts PowerPoint slides into the same presentation.
[Pro Edition] Print-out quality improved with vector image printing. Requires Editor.
Flow chart metrics: number of shapes and links.
Metrics are stored in .gif, .png and .tif files.
Option for how much comment text is included. Short code and full comments. No code, full comments.
UML2 support. Decision conditions shown as «DecisionInput». Example on the right.

Improvements on character sets

Load non-Latin source code.
Load EBCDIC, UTF-7, UTF-8 or UTF-32/UCS-4 encoded source files.
Load code using any codepage, such as a specific DOS or Mac codepage.
Support for DOS special characters.

COBOL, Delphi and Fortran updates

COBOL: Large flow chart support is now considerably more robust.
COBOL: Improvements for EXIT PARAGRAPH, EXIT SECTION and line continuation.
Delphi: Support updated up to Turbo Delphi 2006.
Delphi: Improvements for compiler directives, classes and international characters.
Fortran 90: #ifdef-#else-#endif.
Upgrading is warmly recommended for these languages.

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Detailed version history

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Download the free demo to see this great upgrade.
Install it in a new directory. It co-exists with your current version.

Visustin v5 flowcharts 31 languages
  • Ada
  • ASP
  • BASIC
  • C/C++
  • C#
  • Clipper
  • COBOL
  • ColdFusion
  • Fortran
  • MSP430 assembler
  • Java, J#
  • JSP
  • JavaScript
  • LotusScript
  • MASM assembler
  • NASM assembler
  • Pascal/Delphi
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • PL/SQL
  • PowerScript
  • PureBasic
  • Python
  • QuickBASIC
  • REALbasic
  • T-SQL
  • VB.NET
  • VBA
  • Visual Basic
  • Visual FoxPro
  • XSLT
Languages new to Visustin v5 are in orange.

Upgrading from Visustin v3 to v5: List of improvements

Are you running Visustin v3 or earlier? This is the list of improvements from v3 to v5.

Visio export layout improved. Get the optimal Visustin-style layout in Visio as well. Straight links. Supports Visio 2002, 2003 and 2007. Support for Visio 2007 has been added. [Pro Edition] SamplesPopup link

Draw flow charts manually. Visustin Editor lets you draw flow charts from scratch with the mouse. [Pro Edition]

Edit flow charts. Visustin Editor lets you edit the automatically created charts. Insert comments, add shapes, highlight important points, adjust links, fine-tune the layout. Load the chart back to continue editing later. [Pro Edition]

Flow chart jobs. Execute pre-defined bulk charting jobs. Run Visustin from a batch file in unattended mode. [Pro Edition]

UML Activity Diagrams. Visustin now has an option to build UML style diagrams instead of the regular flow chart style. See example on top of this page. Samples

Export to PowerPoint. Create a flow chart slide show. Sample pptPopup link

Export to Word. Transfer flow charts to .doc and .docx files. Sample docPopup link

New languages. Flowchart Clipper, ColdFusion, IBM LotusScript, PowerBuilder PowerScript, PureBasic, Python, REALbasic, Visual FoxPro (VFP) and XSLT. Assembler support: MASM and NASM for Intel x86, IAR for MSP430 processors.

Updated language support. Visual Studio 2005 (VB 2005, Visual C++ 2005, C# 2.0). T-SQL for SQL Server 2005 and Sybase Adaptive Server v15. Turbo Delphi 2006. Important language specific improvements have also been made to Ada, C/C++, COBOL, Fortran and PL/SQL.

Windows Vista support. Visustin v5 runs on Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Save TGA, TIFF, PCX, PGM and PPM image files. Ensure interoperability with imaging applications and Unix tools.

Save the source code into GIF, PNG and TIFF image files (optional). Preserve your code with the flow chart. Restore lost code. Re-chart old images with new options.

Bulk save DCX, GIF, MHT and TIFF archives. Put all charts in one file for painless archiving. [Pro Edition]

Load flow charts back in Visustin. Zoom and print large images. Visustin now functions as an image viewer.

Metrics. Check out the cyclomatic complexity and decision density of your flow chart. MorePopup link

New options

Option to show compiler directives (#if..#else) with decision symbols. Selected languages only.
Option 'Truncate long lines' keeps chart size down while showing most code.
Option 'No code' reveals program structure without showing any code.
Option to display only comments, but only short or no code.
Option to load code stored in any codepage, including DOS, Mac, EBCDIC, UTF-7, UTF-8 and UTF-32.

Other improvements

Improved layout. Chart shapes fine-tuned. Try-Catch blocks improved.
Improved large print-outs with page numbers.
Improved Find: Case sensitive search, Whole word search.

Upgrade prices

Visustin v5.0 upgrade price list — US dollars
Visustin license Single user 2-pack 3-pack Team (5-user) 10-pack +1 user Site license
Upgrade to v5 Standard
(from old version)
$149 $249 $329 $409 $579 +$35 $1690
Upgrade to v5 Pro
(from old version or v5 Std)
$300 $491 $631 $771 $1130 +$70 $3200
Upgrade requires an existing Visustin license (same size or larger), any edition.
The +1 user price is for upgrading from existing license sizes of 6 or more users.

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Free upgrade? If you purchased Visustin v4 on 1 October 2007 or later, you qualify for a free upgrade to v5. Write us to get your free upgrade.

2 installations per license. A single user license allows installation on two computers. Anyone can use the primary installation, but only one person at a time. The (optional) secondary installation is exclusively for the primary user of the primary installation. A site license allows 100 installations. Other license sizes are available on request. Additional installations are allowed if previous installations are removed first. Activation is required before running the full software. Activation does not require online connection on the target computer.
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Upgrade details

Free minor updates are included within one major version number (5.x -> 5.y). No free updates are guaranteed to come out.

Discounted version upgrades are available from all previous Visustin versions. You need an old Visustin license of the same size (full upgrade). A partial upgrade to a smaller license is also allowed for the prices listed. As an example, from a 5-user license you can upgrade all 5 users or do a partial upgrade for 1 or 2 users. To upgrade to a larger license, please ask for an offer.

A license upgrade terminates your existing license(s) in 30 days of upgrading. When upgrading to an equal or a larger license size, the old license terminates fully. A partial upgrade (to a smaller license size) decreases the size of the old license accordingly.

Online activation is required before running the full software. Offline activation is possible through another, online computer. Activation is covered for 3 years after purchase of upgrade.

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