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Tom Sawyer Software Releases Upgraded Java Layout Software

Tom Sawyer Layout, Version 9.0, Java Edition, Introduces New Drawing Fitting

Tom Sawyer Layout, Java Edition, is a versatile set of Java classes and APIs that enable users to organize and lay out relational data, producing exceptionally clear diagrams that reveal hidden relationships and underlying structures. Tom Sawyer Layout, Java Edition, is a portable and flexible software library that can be integrated with your own database, display, and graphics systems. Whether you are developing Sun Swing, Eclipse SWT, or thin client applications, you can benefit from its superb layout capabilities.

New Benefits

Tom Sawyer Layout, Version 9.0, Java Edition offers fine global and incremental automatic layout, labeling, and routing. For years, enterprise-class customers with large complex data sets and many drawing rules have been aware that no other academic, commercial, or open source offering has the scalability, reliability, and quality that Tom Sawyer products offer.

Tom Sawyer Layout, Version 9.0, implements new drawing fitting technology where each layout style has new features to fit the drawing canvas or the printed page more optimally. For instance, circular and symmetric layouts will rotate optimally to fit the canvas or printed page. If a resultant drawing more closely fits the aspect ratio of the canvas or printed page, then each user interface element in the drawing is easier to read at lower zoom levels. Further, this release continues with many layout, labeling, and routing refinements.

New Features

Tom Sawyer Layout, Version 9.0, Java Edition offers new and enhanced features:

Documentation

• Enhanced Developer's Guide
• Expanded Tutorials
• Enhanced References

Layout

• New drawing fitting optimizes screen utilization
• New interruptible layout
• Circular layout
• New drawing fitting rotation
• Hierarchical layout
• Refined node placement
• Orthogonal layout
• Many routing refinements
• Many local crossing refinements
• Symmetric layout
• New drawing fitting rotation
• New grouping constraints
• Nested layout
• Reduced inter-drawing edge crossings
• Labeling
• Refined labeling

About Tom Sawyer Software

Tom Sawyer Software is the leading provider of software and services that enable organizations to build highly scalable and flexible graph and data visualization and analysis applications. These applications are used to discover hidden patterns, complex relationships, and key trends in large and diverse datasets. Tom Sawyer Software serves clients with needs in link analysis; network topology; architectures and models; schematics and maps; and dependencies, flows, and processes. We help clients federate and integrate their data from multiple sources and build the graph and data visualization applications that are critical to analyzing and gaining insight into their data.