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Re: Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library

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Post by MaggieL » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #9

SigmundA wrote: post #3

We have been looking at it and currently use the WinForm based product from you guys. Biggest issue we see right now is print output. We need good large format printing. Since it completely canvas based any print output is going to be raster, which will not scale up and use large amount of memory if made at any decent DPI. We had the same issue when looking at the Silverlight version, all raster based, printing looke…

I have to ask (+ be safe in the knowledge my plug is no worse than Simon's - Hello Northwoods \0/), how come HN folks find GoJS and yFiles and not so much our product mxGraph (www.jgraph.com). We've been doing this library since 2005, the others went into production in 2012 (I think). We seem to attract the Enterprises, but not so much the general devs. If anyone is feeling critical, does our site simply not make it…

yFiles has been around for many years, and the yWorks free-to-use diagramming tool based on it named yEd is in my use-it-everyday list.

Re: Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library

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Post by davidjgraph » Tue, Sep 10, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

MaggieL wrote: post #11

davidjgraph wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to ask (+ be safe in the knowledge my plug is no worse than Simon's - Hello Northwoods \0/), how come HN folks find GoJS and yFiles and not so much our product mxGraph (www.jgraph.com). We've been doing this library since 2005, the others went into production in 2012 (I think). We seem to attract the Enterprises, but not so much the general devs. If anyone is feeling critical, does our site simply not make it…

yFiles has been around for many years, and the yWorks free-to-use diagramming tool based on it named yEd is in my use-it-everyday list.

I was referring to the release dates of the web native products, yFiles HTML and GOJs, the companies are indeed all much older.

Re: Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library

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Post by teyc » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 1:40 AM UTC

jack-r-abbit wrote: post #5

It works pretty nice. It looks so-so. But it seems a little pricey to me. $1350 for a single, internal app & $8385 for unlimited apps forever.[1] That feels pretty high. [1] http://www.nwoods.com/sales/ordering.htm

it's cheaper than most per-seat licensing schemes.

Re: Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library

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Post by giuliano108 » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 9:39 AM UTC

MaggieL wrote: post #11

davidjgraph wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to ask (+ be safe in the knowledge my plug is no worse than Simon's - Hello Northwoods \0/), how come HN folks find GoJS and yFiles and not so much our product mxGraph (www.jgraph.com). We've been doing this library since 2005, the others went into production in 2012 (I think). We seem to attract the Enterprises, but not so much the general devs. If anyone is feeling critical, does our site simply not make it…

yFiles has been around for many years, and the yWorks free-to-use diagramming tool based on it named yEd is in my use-it-everyday list.

yEd seems to be really good, thanks for the pointer MaggieL ...

Re: Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library

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Post by SigmundA » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 3:01 PM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #9

SigmundA wrote: post #3

We have been looking at it and currently use the WinForm based product from you guys. Biggest issue we see right now is print output. We need good large format printing. Since it completely canvas based any print output is going to be raster, which will not scale up and use large amount of memory if made at any decent DPI. We had the same issue when looking at the Silverlight version, all raster based, printing looke…

I have to ask (+ be safe in the knowledge my plug is no worse than Simon's - Hello Northwoods \0/), how come HN folks find GoJS and yFiles and not so much our product mxGraph (www.jgraph.com). We've been doing this library since 2005, the others went into production in 2012 (I think). We seem to attract the Enterprises, but not so much the general devs. If anyone is feeling critical, does our site simply not make it…

You need many more samples, much better docs and a user forum would help.

I will say we are looking at your product as well. Your print support looks great with nice browser based preview and support for large format printing. Your server side .Net component for PDF conversion sounds good, but there is almost no information on it on the site, again a doc problem.