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Upgrading Your RFFlow | The latest release of RFFlow is Version 5.06. Users of RFFlow Versions 5.00 through 5.05 can download a free upgrade to RFFlow 5.06. Users of RFFlow Version 1, 2, 3, or 4 can upgrade to RFFlow 5.06 at low upgrade prices. If you need to reinstall RFFlow on a new computer and don't have your original CD, e-mail rff@rff.com or go to register online and request the download instructions. |
RFFlow 5.06 Revision 5 January 11, 2019 |
We modified the way shapes are highlighted to minimize annoying blinking. |
RFFlow 5.06 Revision 4 December 11, 2018 |
We fixed a bug in the code and also compiled it with a newer version of Microsoft Visual Studio. |
RFFlow 5.06 Revision 2 February 28, 2015 |
Revision 2 includes more bug fixes. |
RFFlow 5.06 Revision 1 August 13, 2010 |
Revision 1 includes a number of bug fixes. |
RFFlow 5.06 May 7, 2010 |
This upgrade adds new stencils for mathematical
symbols and military symbols.
To see the new stencils, run RFFlow and click on the More Shapes button
![]() Math Symbols. This stencil will help when you need to add equations to your charts. You can see more equations drawn with RFFlow at www.rff.com/math-symbols.php. ![]() Military Symbols. RFFlow now has a stencil that includes military
shapes. This stencil includes the APP-6A NATO symbols. Additional examples can
be found at www.rff.com/military-symbols.php. |
RFFlow 5.05 September 29, 2009 |
Many new stencils and shapes were added to this upgrade of
RFFlow. The Process Mapping folder
contains the new stencils Relationship Maps, Cross-Functional
Maps, and Process Flowcharts. Samples of
these charts are located at Process
Maps and Process Mapping. A stencil was added to help draw Tournament Charts. See Tournament Charts and Bracket Charts for more samples.
An Accidents stencil was added to the Criminal Analysis folder. We add new stencils to the Industrial Objects folder. The new stencils are Function Blocks, General Instrument Symbols, and Piping and Instrumentation. We added a large number of Cisco network symbols. These are found in the Computers/Networks folder. |
RFFlow 5.04 September 17, 2008 |
Two New Auto chart
timeline Styles. Earlier versions of RFFlow allowed the user to
input data and RFFlow would draw a criminal analysis style timeline. Now you
can select 3 different styles of timelines.
Rectangle and Line Style Timeline Bar Chart Timeline Style Criminal Analysis Timeline Style
New Buttons for Auto Charts. On earlier
versions of RFFlow, you had to click on Tools, Auto Charts, and Draw
Timeline to draw a timeline chart. Now you can simply add the Draw
Timeline button
Fuzzy Shadows. We added gradient shadows to most shapes along with solid shadows. Group Command. If you select a group of objects and right-click on the selection, you can now click on Group and group these shapes into one shape. This is a permanent grouping and the new shape will move and rotate as one shape. This is helpful when you want to draw your own shapes to use in RFFlow. Apply Color to a chart. If you want to color a chart that you have already drawn, you can click on Tools, Color, and Apply a Color Scheme. If you only want to add a background color, you can click on Tools, Color, and Apply a Background Color. Apply Color to a Stencil. To add color to a stencil, right-click on the name of the stencil on the left side of the RFFlow Window and click Choose a Color Scheme in the drop-down menu. More Shapes and Stencils.
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RFFlow
5.03 February 16, 2007 |
Antialiasing
(Smoothing). RFFlow 5.03 uses Microsoft GDI+ rather than the
older GDI to draw graphics. With GDI+, lines and curves are smoothed and don't
show the jagged appearance of GDI.
Save As PNG and TIFF. RFFlow 5.03 now allows you to save your charts as BMP, EMF, GIF, HTML, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and WMF. PNG is the Portable Network Graphics format and is a good replacement for GIF. It allows for more colors than GIF and it is supported on all browsers. TIFF is the Tag Image File Format. TIFF is useful if your charts are going to be published. Insert, Picture from File, PNG and TIFF. RFFlow 5.03 allows you to insert pictures of these file formats into your chart: BMP, EMF, GIF, ICON, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and WMF. These pictures can be sized and rotated in RFFlow. Alpha Channel Transparency. RFFlow 5.03 allows you to specify an alpha value for each color. This allows fill colors to be transparent. The range is from 255 which is a solid color to 0 which is completely transparent. In the picture below, the red rectangle has an alpha of 255 and is a solid color. The yellow, green, and purple shapes have alpha values around 150 and allow the background to show through. Gradient Fills. RFFlow 5.03 allows you to fill any shape with a either a linear gradient or path gradient. You specify two colors and the fill changes from one color to the other. More Hatched Patterns. RFFlow 5.03 has expanded the number of hatch pattern fills from 6 to 53 patterns. Shadows on all Shapes. In earlier versions of RFFlow, some shapes had fixed shadows. RFFlow 5.03 allows you to put a shadow on any shape and the size, position, and color of the shadow can be modified. To add a shadow to a shape, right-click the shape, click Properties, Line and Color tab, and click the Add a Shadow button. Added Multiplier to Dimensions on Lines. In earlier versions of RFFlow, you could set up the dimensions on lines so that each grid unit is 1 inch, 1 mm, 1 foot, etc. With RFFlow 5.03, you can also specify a multiplier so that each grid unit is .25 inches or 10.7776 inches. To set this up, click on Tools and Dimensions on Lines. To select a line style, click the More Shapes button, Lines folder, and Lines with Dimensions stencil. New RFFlow In-program Help. RFFlow 5.03 uses compiled HTML Help instead of the older Windows Help. This allows RFFlow 5.03 Help to be viewed in Windows Vista, 7 and 8. Click on Help in the main menu of RFFlow and RFFlow Help. New Gradient Flowchart Stencil. Click on the More Shapes button, Flowcharting folder, Color Schemes folder, and Gradients stencil. You will then be asked to select a color scheme, gradient style, and with or without a shadow. Association Matrix. In RFFlow 5.03 the matrix includes totals at the bottom of the chart and you can view the chart as you are adding data by clicking on View in the main menu of RFMatrix. Telephone Analysis. In RFFlow 5.03 you can select the target phone number from either column instead of just the left column as was the case in earlier versions of RFFlow.
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RFFlow
5.02 June 22, 2005 |
Automatic Generator for
Timeline Charts. To automatically draw a timeline chart, click Tools,
Auto Charts, and Enter Timeline Data. You simply enter the
event, the time it occurred, and the people (entities) involved. Then click Tools,
Auto Charts, and Draw Timeline. RFFlow will automatically draw
the timeline. For complete instructions, see How
to Draw a Timeline.![]() Improved Gantt Chart Generator.
Now you can specify the duration of a task in hours, days, weeks, or months
and RFFlow will automatically draw the Gantt chart. For hours and days, you
can specify how many pages the chart should cover. Color schemes have been
added to easily select matching colors for your Gantt chart. For more
information, see How to Draw a Gantt
Chart. Color Schemes for Stencils. With
RFFlow 5.02, you can add matching colors to a complete stencil. This should be
done before you draw the chart. Let's assume you have selected the Audit
Objects stencil as shown below. Current Location and Scroll Position is Saved. Suppose you are using RFFlow 5.02 and working on a chart. You are zoomed in to 250% and are drawing in the upper right hand corner of your chart. It is the end of the day, so you save and exit RFFlow. The next day you open this same chart and RFFlow 5.02 will automatically zoom and scroll so you are positioned in the same place on the chart. |
RFFlow 5.01 July 13, 2004 |
Automatic Gantt Chart
Generator. To automatically draw a Gantt chart, click Tools,
Auto Charts, and Enter Gantt Chart Data. You simply enter each
task with its starting date and duration. Then click Tools, Auto
Charts, and Draw Gantt Chart. The result is a finished Gantt chart.
For full instructions see How to
Draw a Gantt Chart.
Association Matrix. If you need to draw link analysis diagrams, RFFlow 5.01 has made it much easier. Click Tools, Auto Charts, and Association Matrix. Add names and businesses and right-click on the intersections to establish the relationship between them. This tool allows you to handle an unlimited number of data points. Once you have entered the data points, save the file. Then click Tools, Auto Charts, and Link Analysis in RFFlow to automatically generate the link analysis chart. Multibyte Characters. There is a full Japanese version of RFFlow with all the menus and Help files translated into Japanese. For other dual byte languages like Chinese and Korean, the menus and Help files are in English, but RFFlow 5.01 will accept dual byte characters. This is enabled by clicking Tools, Miscellaneous, and Use Multibyte Characters. |
RFFlow 5.00 November 1, 2003 |
See New Features of RFFlow 5. |
RFFlow 4.09 August 5, 2002 |
New Stencils.
New Stencils have been added for:
To access these, click the green Stencils button. The stencils are arranged alphabetically. The transistors section has been enlarged to include bipolar transistors drawn without the circle. The Link Analysis stencil now includes a 105 slot Matrix for drawing large charts. Some of the stencils now include a sample chart as the first item. This allows you to drag a completed chart into the drawing area and edit it. We will try to add more of these in future releases. |
RFFlow 4.08 December 27, 2001 |
Save As JPEG. Save As JPEG has been added to
complement Save As GIF for Web pages. If you have photographs in your chart and
want to put the chart on a Web page, you should use Save As HTML and select a
JPEG as the bitmap format. For charts without photographs, select Save As HTML
and then select a GIF as the bitmap format. In both cases you can create links
in shapes to jump to other Web pages.
Lines with Dimensions. These lines automatically display the length of the line and the dimensions change as the line's length is changed. Click the green Stencils button, Lines, and Lines with Dimensions. You can change the units used by clicking Tools, and Dimensions on Lines. Criminal Analysis. You can now draw a matrix diagram and let RFFlow automatically create the Link Analysis diagram. Start with the Link Analysis stencil in the Criminal Analysis folder. Drag the matrix onto your chart. Fill in the names and relationships. Then save this file and close it. Click Tools, Auto Charts, and Link Analysis. Choose "The input data is inside a matrix saved in an RFFlow file." RFFlow will read the matrix and draw a Link Analysis diagram. You end up with two RFFlow files: the file with the matrix and the file with the Link Analysis diagram. For more information, click Help in the main menu of RFFlow and Help Topics. Scroll to the very end of the list and open Criminal Investigations and Link Analysis. Criminal Investigations 2. The Criminal Investigations 2 stencil has been permanently added to RFFlow 4.08. Previously, you had to download it from this Web site. Click the green Stencils button, Criminal Analysis, and Criminal Investigations 2. Home Floor Plans. RFFlow 4.08 has new stencils for drawing home floor plans. Click the green Stencils button, Floor Plans, and Home Layout. The stencils include: Appliances, Cabinets and Counters, Electrical and Lighting, Furniture, Garden Accessories, Plumbing Fixtures, and Walls, Windows, and Floors. Other stencils added to RFFlow 4.08 are: Closed Circuit TV and Integrated Circuits in the Electrical/Electronics folder. In the Flowcharting folder, stencils for drawing Deployment and Opportunity flowcharts were added. |
RFFlow 4.07 May 29, 2001 |
Insert Picture From File. You can now insert
JPEG and GIF pictures directly into your charts. Just click Insert in the
main menu of RFFlow and Picture From File. For more information, click Insert
and Help in the drop-down menu. The Insert menu item should be used if
you have the picture saved in a .gif or .jpeg file. If you are getting your
pictures from a Web page, it is easier to right-click on the picture, click Copy,
and then in RFFlow click Edit, Paste.
Globally Change Stacking Order. RFFlow 4.07 allows you to select a group of objects and change the stacking order for the entire group. Click Tools, Global Changes, and Stacking Order, Front/Back. You could also right-click on the selected shapes and choose Stacking Order, Front/Back. Auto Charts. Law enforcement investigators can now use RFFlow to automatically draw Link Analysis and Telephone Call Charts. The investigator first generates a text file containing the data. The Auto Charts feature is located in the Tools menu of RFFlow. For more information, click Tools, Auto Charts, and Help. Criminal Analysis Stencils. Several new stencils have been added to aid law enforcement agencies in drawing charts. These stencils group the required shapes and lines in one place making it easier to get started drawing a chart. To see these new stencils, click the green Stencils button in RFFlow and then open the Criminal Analysis folder. The new stencils include: Activity Flowchart, Commodity Flowchart, Event Flow and Timeline, Link Analysis, and Telephone Analysis. |
RFFlow 4.06 November 8, 2000 |
Stacking Order. In previous versions of
RFFlow, the last object moved would appear in front of the other filled objects.
This allowed you to stack objects. However, if you moved one of the objects in
the back, it would jump to the front. RFFlow 4.06 allows you to fix the stacking
order of objects. Right-click on a filled shape and go to the Layers tab.
At the bottom of this dialog box you can select any of eight positions. 1 is in
front, 8 is in back, and the other numbers are in between. Once a shape is
assigned a stacking order, it will remain at that position. For shapes with the
same stacking order, the last object moved is in front.
Background Shapes. A new stencil was added called Background Shapes. These are large objects about the size of one page that have been placed in stacking order 8. They will remain in the background as you draw charts on top of them. These background shapes include solid colors, grays, and gradients where the color changes from some color to white. You can size these shapes just like other RFFlow shapes. You can use these shapes to put vertical or horizontal stripes behind your charts. The gradient-filled shapes have also been added to the end of the Organization Chart stencil. 16 Layers. The number of layers has been increased from 8 to 16. Layers are often used in industrial drawings. For example, the electrical system is drawn on one layer and the plumbing on another. |
RFFlow 4.05 June 20, 2000 |
Save As GIF or HTML. In RFFlow 4.05 and
higher, you can save your RFFlow charts as GIF or HTML files for use on Web
pages. For more information, run RFFlow and click Help in the main menu.
Then click Help Topics and the Index tab. Next click on either the
word .gif or .html and click the Display button. Draw Custom Shapes. RFFlow 4.05 and higher includes a program named RFShape. To run RFShape, click the Start button, Programs, and RFShape. RFShape is used to draw custom shapes for RFFlow. You draw each shape in RFShape, copy it to the clipboard, and paste the shape into your RFFlow chart. You can also add your custom shape to a stencil. For information on how to use RFShape, run RFShape and click Help in the main menu. Then click Help Topics, Contents tab, and Basic Operations. |
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Users of RFFlow Versions 5.00 through 5.05 can download the free upgrade to RFFlow 5.06. If you have any questions, call us at 970-663-5767 or send e-mail to help@rff.com |
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