I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do - really a nice graphics library set. I'm not wanting to use Dia or xfig...these are FREE but are not exactly a Network Admins friend.
Any suggestion asides from writing one? Or where can we suggest this in the Linux world? All we need are some nice icon / graphics library set...for now.
~./where wrote: > I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do - really a nice > graphics library set. I'm not wanting to use Dia or xfig...these are FREE > but are not exactly a Network Admins friend.
> Any suggestion asides from writing one? Or where can we suggest this in the > Linux world? All we need are some nice icon / graphics library set...for > now.
<ccox_nopenott...@airmail.net> wrote: > ~./where wrote: >> I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do - really a nice >> graphics library set. I'm not wanting to use Dia or xfig...these are FREE >> but are not exactly a Network Admins friend.
>> Any suggestion asides from writing one? Or where can we suggest this in the >> Linux world? All we need are some nice icon / graphics library set...for >> now.
> I use Visio under Linux.
I have used the drawing tool in OpenOffice. I have found networking icons and flowchart symbols out on the Internet. It is not near as easy as Visio but it is workable.
~./where wrote: > I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do - really a nice > graphics library set. I'm not wanting to use Dia or xfig...these are FREE > but are not exactly a Network Admins friend.
> Any suggestion asides from writing one? Or where can we suggest this in the > Linux world? All we need are some nice icon / graphics library set...for > now.
Not sure if this will meet your needs -- haven't done more than play with it.
~./where wrote: > I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do - really a > nice > graphics library set. I'm not wanting to use Dia or xfig...these are FREE > but are not exactly a Network Admins friend.
> Any suggestion asides from writing one? Or where can we suggest this in > the > Linux world? All we need are some nice icon / graphics library set...for > now.
The package Dia has hundreds of premade symbols like flowcharts, UML, networking etc.
> I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do
Here is a list of UML programs I collated recently.
[52]Unimodeller Dunno, never tried it.
[53]Umbrello (KDE) I'll write this one later. You can't export to PostScript or PDF from the command line, only via the GUI. Therefore you can't automate exporting with Make.
[54]Dia (GTK2) Built as a clone of Visio (before Microsoft bought it). Klugy interface, but a fancy GUI to edit class internals. Automated edge placement, but it doesn't cope well if you move nodes around. Exports to PostScript or C++ stubs (via script).
Fig / XFig (Motif?) Yecch. Klugy, mouse-centric interface. Difficult (AFAIK) to change placed objects. Has a lot of momentum, because it's about the oldest vector tool around.
[55]Inkscape (GTK2) What XFig would like to be. Fantastic interface design, but deals with vector graphics in general rather than diagrams, so it (currently) lacks important stuff like "attaching" edges to nodes.
[56]Graphviz (CLI) Graphviz is primarily a graph layout tool, but it has been extended for in class diagrams. By far the most readable source files, especially if you preprocess with e.g. CPP and #define CLASS shape=.... Graphviz automatically lays out both nodes and edges, so kluges are sometimes necessary to get a better layout.
[57]PST-UML (LaTeX) A LaTeX package using PSTricks. Never tried it.
[58]ArgoUML (Java) I Don't Do Java, so I've never tried it.
[59]OmniGraffle (OS X) Commercial. Very pretty, but when I played with it I didn't like it's UML support. Nice interface.
IBM Rational Rose (Windows) I Don't Do Windows, so I've never tried it.
[60]Violet (Java) I Don't Do Java, so I've never tried it.
[61]Microsoft Visio (Windows) I Don't Do Windows, so I've never tried it. Public opinion is that it has gone downhill since Microsoft bought it.
"~./where" <h...@home.com> wrote in message <news:gok2e.5254$c76.4598@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>... > I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do - really a nice > graphics library set. I'm not wanting to use Dia or xfig...these are FREE > but are not exactly a Network Admins friend.
> Any suggestion asides from writing one? Or where can we suggest this in the > Linux world? All we need are some nice icon / graphics library set...for > now.
OOo draw does most of it, but you will need a stencil set - the gallery works well once loaded.
>>I am lookinf for a tool that does half of what Visio can do - really a nice >>graphics library set. I'm not wanting to use Dia or xfig...these are FREE >>but are not exactly a Network Admins friend.
>>Any suggestion asides from writing one? Or where can we suggest this in the >>Linux world? All we need are some nice icon / graphics library set...for >>now.
> OOo draw does most of it, but you will need a stencil set - the > gallery works well once loaded.
