On 6/4/05, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 04 June 2005 02:10, Patrick McNamara wrote: > > Daily transcripts from #opengraphics on irc.freenode.net are located here: > > http://www.supersecret.org/irc_logs > > > > [16:42] <theosib> ARGH. I've tried Kivio, and I couldn't get it to do > > anything well, and I'm trying Dia, and it's better, but it still sucks. I > > need a tool for making high-level circuit block diagrams. > > [16:43] <theosib> Every tool, open source or proprietary, tries to out-smart > you and just ends up making things harder. > > [16:49] <chip> theosib: I told you the OSS ones sucked. > > [16:49] <chip> Visio is sadly the best of class. > > [16:50] <chip> OOo drawing is worth a try I guess. > > [16:52] <theosib> Ok, I'll try OOo. > > You sound like you should try XFig. It's almost as old as I am, it's simple, > and the interface takes a little getting used to (nothing major, mainly > grab-drag-drop rather than drag-'n'-drop, that is you don't hold the mouse > button while dragging) but it works _and_ it has a library with electronics > symbols. It exports to PS as well as a buch of bitmap formats. It is also a > vector drawing app rather than a graph editor, so it doesn't get in your way. > Almost all Linux distributions have it in stock. >
Hey, yeah, I used to use that. But anyhow, it's too late, because I already got what I wanted from OOo. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
