Re: OT: open source visio - dia alternate

From: Brian Dennis <bdennis_at_ine.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:25:10 -0800

I use Visio in Wine (Crossover actually). The only drawback is that
with Mint and even with Fedora I have issues printing from Visio 2003 to
PDF. Currently I just save to a .png and then print it to PDF from
linux directly.

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On 03/03/2012 07:47 PM, Keller Giacomarro wrote:
> As much as I would love an alternative, I've never seen software that
> diagrams network prettily on Linux.  I run Visio in Wine if I really need
> to work on Linux instead of dual-booting Windows or using a VM.
>
> I would also be interested in finding out if anyone else has seen a good
> network diagramming alternative to Visio.  Surely there's some specialized
> software for this task out there that creates diagrams that are both pretty
> and useful!
>
> Keller Giacomarro
> keller.g_at_gmail.com
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Radioactive Frog<pbhatkoti_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>> I have been using opensource Dia for a few years.
>> It's not bad software but I was wondering if anybody have used any other
>> software that on *nix desktop.
>>
>> OmniGrffle is nice to see but it's not for *nix platfarm.
>> yED is not good and there are tonns of online versions that are not an
>> option.
>>
>> I am looking for desktop /offline diagraming software.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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