Re: The place of Inspiration in the scheme of things

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Posted by jackcrawford
2006-02-08 04:12:20

SD: “I got Inspiration 8 trial installed with the help of Inspiration Software’s excellent technical support. As a software company, Inspiration seems to me among the best”.

For non-USA customers, it certainly isn’t. It hands people over to small local companies who are versions behind and are really interested in something else (i.e. their own software or business consulting). Isn’t this exactly what they are doing with their “business” version.

SD: “For me, the inability in the graphical outliner to restructure linkages by simply by restructuring the relationship between objects—the need in Inspiration to actually operate on the linking relations rather than by actually relating objects—adds an unnecessary layer of opacity and is fatal to the purpose of the tool.”

Stephen, could you run that by me again? We are a bit slow down under. :-) Are you saying that Inspiration focuses too much on the means of linking, rather than the links/objects themselves?

I love the ability to be able to toggle on the fly between graphic and outlining mode. The Inspiration model holds so much potential, but I’m pessimistic that it will ever be realised as the company seems to have such a narrow (in marketing, they would say targeted) focus and, hence, ambitions.

When was the last time the home web page was redesigned?

Jack

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