Re: [TCLUG:19217] Visio and Dia?

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

I've been making diagrams with dia and working with Visio zealots for some
time.  I can say the dia's limited network objects enables the diagramer
to make coherent diagrams that are free of the overuse of ligntning bolts,
cisco router icons and other nonsense.  Dia's ability to export to
encapsulated PostScript and xml means that the visio-less can view the
diagram -- in fact, virtually anyone with a web browser can be down with
your diagrams.

Peter Lukas

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Luke Francl wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> My boss and I are writing an article for publication about the database
> backed website we made [1]. For this article, I'd like to create some
> diagrams of the data model and the server setup and things like that. I
> could do it in Photoshop or xfig, but I'm not real big on graphics anymore
> and don't really *want* to. 
> 
> I've heard about a program for Gnome called Dia
> (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/dia.shtml and
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html) which seeks to emulate the
> functionality of the $$$ data modeling program for Windows, Visio
> (http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio/) which is now owned by Microsoft
> and part of the Office suite.
> 
> Does anyone have any exprience with either of these programs (esp. Dia,
> because Visio costs a lot of money, so it's doubtful I could get it)? I
> need a compelling reason to get my boss to pursuade the IT support people
> to let me switch to Linux on my desktop. This *might* be it!
> 
> Thanks for any input,
> Luke
> 
> [1] I work for the University of Minnesota Libraries, www.lib.umn.edu if
> your curious. It's nothing special from a .com standpoint, but radical
> from a library standpoint. And no, going to 800x600 was NOT my idea.
> 
> 
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