For years, DeltaGraph has been one of the top Mac charting programs, offering tons of chart types and presentation options for business and science users. Now, more than two years since the last update, SPSS, which acquired DeltaGraph in 1997, has improved on this excellent product.
The program offers an array of slide-creation and graphing options, including presentation templates with 12 page layouts for each template; drag-and-drop slide formatting; and the ability to mix and match charts, graphs, and bulleted slides to create slide shows with special effects. You’d expect these features from a program like PowerPoint, but in DeltaGraph they’re only the appetizers.
DeltaGraph’s main course is its enormous array of more than 80 2D and 3D graphs. Choosing which chart you want is simple — you just scroll through a well- designed gallery. If you’re not sure which one will best illustrate your statistics, you can use the program’s built-in Chart Advisor to narrow your options. Some notable additions to this version include intensity and paired-intensity scatter charts — especially useful for complex scientific data — and volume-high-low-close charts for graphing movements in stocks and other equities.
If you’re a number cruncher, you’ll appreciate the inclu- sion of the latest edition of MathType Equation Editor, as well as the ability to import not only Excel, SYLK, and Trapeze data, but also tab-, space-, comma-, and custom- delimited files. On the graphics side, you can import MacPaint, Adobe Photoshop, QuickTime, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, EPS, QuickDraw GX, and several other common formats.
In addition to its vast range of chart and presentation options, DeltaGraph shines in the ease-of-use category. Menus and dialog boxes are logical and easy to navigate, and you can preview chart changes without leaving the dialog box you’re in. Graphs that might take hours to create in other programs — charts with broken axes, for example — come standard with DeltaGraph.
DeltaGraph is remarkably stable and fast. It can draw a 3D chart representing thousands of data points in seconds. The well-written and comprehensive manual guides users through myriad options.
If you need only simple graphs and charts in your work, you’ll do fine sticking with graphing modules in programs like Excel and PowerPoint. But if you use charts often, you’ll save hours of work and impress the crowds with DeltaGraph.
Merron, Jeff. (May 1999). DeltaGraph 4.5. MacAddict. (pg. 63).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
SheepShaver
