DeltaGraph Pro competes directly with Microsoft Excel and its built-in graphing capabilities. Graphing packages only survive if they offer more features, more convenience, and better chart output than Excel, which is ubiquitous on Mac desktops. In this ferociously competitive arena, DeltaGraph Pro stands out from the pack.
DeltaGraph Pro is a single program that competes successfully in two areas: scientific and engineering graphing, and business charts. Science journals and reports usually publish graphs in black and white, so a scientific graphing package has to offer precise control over tick marks, axis formatting, and other monochrome details, and it should also provide curve fitting for chart points. Wave Metrics’ Igor Pro, which includes full-scale programming capabilities, is probably the most powerful package for this market, but DeltaGraph can hold its own in preparing most types of charts for publication. And though Microsoft’s PowerPoint goes far beyond Excel in business graphics and slide-show presentations, DeltaGraph can do all PowerPoint’s tricks — it has a library of fancy prepared layouts and backgrounds — and it’s faster and easier to use. This program has it all — speed and features — and you can learn it in five minutes.
Version 3.5 offers some major enhancements over 3.0. The Chart Gallery has been overhauled so it’s much easier to find the style you need in the array of 60-plus possibilities. The old gallery had business, scientific, and statistical groupings — the new gallery is organized by type (bar, line, and so forth). There are six new charts for quality control (the only noticeable omission from the previous version, which offered such seldom-seen types as vector, donut, Pareto, and ogive charts). Besides the improved gallery organization, DeltaGraph’s updated Chart Advisor will inspect your data table (DeltaGraph Pro data is stored in spreadsheet-like structures) and suggest the best chart type for presentation — this keeps you from making basic charting mistakes, such as putting 18 elements into a pie chart. DeltaGraph Pro 3.5 now automatically (one might add, finally) updates charts as soon as you change numbers in the spreadsheet data page. The last important new feature is Apple Guide-based help. DeltaGraph has always been a program you could use without consulting the manual often, but with Apple Guide you might not even take the manual out of the box.
The list of DeltaGraph’s virtues is long and impressive. In its Power Mac version, it’s very fast—charts for standard-size sets of business data, 20 by 100 cells or smaller, update in a few seconds. Pictograph charts are as easy to make as bar charts, and slide shows are simple to arrange in Outline mode. DeltaGraph not only imports files from any text source, CA-Cricket Graph, and Excel, but it can also set up hot links to the original data files in case they’re changed later. You can also drag charts between multiple open documents. Looking back at previous versions of DeltaGraph, Delta Point has systematically answered every complaint or suggestion mentioned in earlier reviews. The Windows version works exactly like the Mac version, and DeltaGraph also runs under System 6.0.2, good news if you’re still using a IIsi. Mac-software nostalgia buffs should note that DeltaGraph imports files from Trapeze, a spreadsheet program that was ahead of its time nine years ago and would still look avant-garde in today’s environment.
The Last Word
DeltaGraph Pro is the right choice for all but the simplest or most esoteric charting jobs — it’s the program to use 95 percent of the time. Version 3.5 has all virtues and no vices, and it’s even reasonably priced.
Seiter, Charles. (January 1996). DeltaGraph Pro 3.5. Macworld. (pg. 57).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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