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cgramer2
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cgramer2 asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

Can't get Harvard Graphics Advanced Presentations 3.0 to work in Vista?

My company has standardized on Harvard Graphics AP 3.0 for use in making charts/graphs/etc. for the reports we produce. We upgraded to Vista in the last year, and since then, we've had to run Harvard in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with a Windows XP virtual environment. The program (HGAP) installs on Vista and starts up, but as soon as you open a presentation file, it crashes.

We've tried "Run as Administrator," we've tried the various "compatibility modes," all to no avail.

If you've managed to get Harvard Graphics AP 3.0 to run reliably in Vista, I'd love to know how you did it. Thanks!!

Update:

Part of the reason we standardized on Harvard is that its graphs don't get "messed up" when imported into Word and when the Word file is made into a press-quality PDF. It also does several types of graphs that PowerPoint won't do, or that are much easier to do in Harvard.

I really wish that Serif (the company that now owns Harvard) would get off their lazy you-know-whats and produce a new version that's designed for Vista and/or Windows 7.

If you have recommendations for powerful, relatively easy-to-use graphing software, we'd appreciate it. We've taken a look at Deltagraph, but haven't had a chance to really put it through its paces.

Thanks again!

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  • amybeader
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I don't have an answer for you on how to run it under Vista. But I did take a look at the website for the company and product and this product is an older product that will not run under Vista. It will run under XP (it says it is compatible) and is designed to run under much older versions of Windows. So it is not a Vista-compatible product. I think your company may need to look at the products and see if there is a newer version that is Vista-compatible. As it stands, the version you are using is not.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Harvard Graphics Windows 7

    Source(s): https://owly.im/a9Rp4
  • Peter H
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I suggest your company sacks whomever was responsible for that IT decision. There is no point in continuing to run a kludge like that. It would have been cheaper in the long run to go for PowerPoint in the first place

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