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And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. Also added a non-linearity to zooming (starts slower).ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. I.e., the bigger the tree the more you can zoom in. The maximum extent of zooming is now proportional to the number of tips in the tree. These include the reintroduction of font size spinners (in addition to font selection dialogs) and scrolling of the entire control panel when larger than the window.

Numerous tweaks to the controls to make things more convenient.

Colour schemes are now selectable for particular attributes and these are saved and loaded in FigTree files.

The old interpolating colour scheme is still available.

New colour scheme for continuous attributes also based on HSB.

This replaces the old fixed sequence of colours and is more customizable.

New colour scheme for discrete attributes based on a HSB colour wheel.

Added a 'Legend' option which can produce a colour legend for any attribute/colour scheme being used.

These can be coloured and sized by attributes.

Added a 'Node Shape' option which can draw circles, squares or diamonds on each node.

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