Crystal Xcelsius 4.5 Professional Full Product

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Xcelsius makes the most sexy graphs once can imagine, but after extensive use, I have discovered several problems, which really reduce productivity. Backwards compatibility: I saved a presentation using version 4. Then I upgraded to version 4.5 just to discover that I could not open the presentation in version 4.5! There were no work-arounds. I contacted customer service without any luck... I then attempted to downgrade to my last version, but the problem was that the link to download version 4 did not work anymore, so I was basically stuck having spend 10-15 sour hours recreating the presentation I had already created a long while ago. Copy and paste One cannot copy and paste between "presentations". This might seem like a small feature, but imagine that you have spent 50+ hours creating a presentation. Then another 50+ hours creating another presentation. There is then no way to integrate the two into eachother! You have to do all the drawing etc all over again! Limited complexity of the presentations Imagine the following scenario. You create a presentation, which is widely used in your company. Everyone loves it and everything is good. Then some senior management decides that they want to expand the presentation to include more data/history etc. This is agreed upon and you get the task. As you expand the presentation you run into heavier and heavier performance problems (meaning it takes more than 1 hour to preview a presentation). In the end it simply got stuck processing for more than 27 hours before I gave up, unable to fulfill the wish. Comment | Permalink | function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)