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Inspiration 9 has been released
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Posted by Lucas
Dec 29, 2009 at 01:54 PM
The new version of Inspiration was released yesterday. It’s available for Mac and Windows. Evidently high schools remain the major customer base, so the software continues to be geared in that direction, but there are some intriguing new features (especially the incorporation of visual connections into the outline view):
http://www.inspiration.com/Inspiration/Whats-New
Season’s greetings to everyone,
Lucas
Posted by Lucas
Dec 29, 2009 at 02:34 PM
Correction: Actually the most significant new feature is the new map view. You can now create true mind maps (instead of just diagrams) and switch back and forth between the map and the outline. I may have been wrong about the connections in outline view, however. Still looking into it…
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 12, 2010 at 07:42 PM
@Lucas
This is very tempting, especially as they appear to be offering upgrades at $29.95, not only to version 8 licence-holders, but also to those with earlier versions of Inspiration. http://store.inspiration.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=IS90-US-PDU
I found Inspiration to be a rather clunky (as compared to NoteMap, for example; or PocketThinker), but many-featured Windows outliner. For those who don’t already have a version of Inspiration, it also has the added advantage that it can be used as one way of exporting Grandview outlines, via Inspiration, to MS-Word.
Derek
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jan 13, 2010 at 07:39 AM
Not “the outline,” as there are two: the diagram view and the map view have separate outline views. Particularly disappointing, the outline view associated with the map view does not have the “focus in” and “focus out” functions (equivalent to hoist). This function is also missing from the map view itself.
Lucas wrote:
>Correction: Actually the most significant new feature is the new map view. You can now
>create true mind maps (instead of just diagrams) and switch back and forth between the
>map and the outline. I may have been wrong about the connections in outline view,
>however. Still looking into it…
Posted by Cassius
Jan 13, 2010 at 08:24 AM
Notemap might be less clunky, but Inspiration has never erased any of my work, Notemap has. I just wrote a 10-page document in Inspiration 8 with little trouble. When converted to rtf or Word it became 14 pages. Anyway, I bought ver. 9 and it arrived 3 days ago. Be sure to read the install instructions: Installing ver 9 does not do anything to ver 8, so you can move any special templates from 8 yo 9, etc. and afterward uninstall 8.
Apropos of HP printers, Inspiration and MS Word 2000: I bought and returned two HP printers because:
1. The HP 8500 printer driver would not let Inspiration 8.0b open.
2. The second HP printer driver took 2 min. 20 sec. to open the print window in Word 2000. It took an additional 3 min. to open the print properties window in all applications.
I am now using a Lexmark Platinum Pro 905, so far (1-1/2 weeks) with no trouble (except the updates download site is having problems). The black ink is cheap.