There is a gentleman that has a web page devoted to comparing the various layout design software packages. You can find it at
http://home.earthlink.net/~mrsvc/id14.html.
Regarding 3rd Planit, he makes the following somewhat ominous statement:
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]"As of October, 2005, the publisher of 3rd PlanIt has been unresponsive to requests for information, which is concerning. While the future of the program is in some question, the currently released version is a solid product that I find quite useful."
The aforementioned web page indicates there is a Yahoo group for 3rd Planit. I would ask some hard questions of those folks before buying the product.
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