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Submitted by stro on Thu, 2005-08-04 14:55. Dia

Are you designing a new program and need to put a process into a flowchart? Do you need an entity relationship diagram for a database? Do you need to document the management structure for a new department? If so, try Dia, a useful and usable open source diagramming application available for both Linux and Windows.

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DIA is great but

Submitted by sanmarcos on Fri, 2005-08-05 01:28.

DIA/GIMP/Inkscape are all great software, the problem is that DIA's UI, even being GTK-only, is totally horrible to see and use.

I've used DIA, and its amazing software, I don't know any open source alternatives to it, but the UI really needs serious, huge work.

I have to echo this. The UI

Submitted by horga_83 on Fri, 2005-08-05 09:57.

I have to echo this. The UI does need to be looked at.

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I agree about the aesthetic

Submitted by robsta on Sat, 2005-08-06 11:06.

I agree about the aesthetic aspectes of UML diagrams created.
In order go get nice ones for my thesis hacking the sourcecode was required to make the UML symbols not have terribly thick lines in EPS output.
Still dia works quite well for many things, like quickly throwing together schematical illustrations.

Excellent Program

Submitted by limewolf on Thu, 2005-08-04 15:41.

I've used Dia for all the diagrams in my PhD thesis recently - it produced diagrams exactly how I wanted them - clear and professional looking; I have found it to be a very good program.

I do think it's interface is a little tricky to get used too and could use some work, but after you are used to it you can produce some nice diagrams. I've used other similar programs but I must say I like Dia a lot. I recommend people give it a try if they have not used it!

My only other comment would be that I'd like to see (stable?) releases a little more often.

Yes, UI sucks bad

Submitted by foo on Thu, 2005-08-04 17:30.

Really, DIA should be much more popular than it is because it's functionality is pretty mature and stable but the UI is seriously crappy and non intuitive. I spent way too much time trying to figure out some things that in Visio are completely obvious (and should be, like how to adjust font size)

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