Cool, I will try that. Also, before I go to bed, I just wanted to add that I found some pay-per-set, stencils, available as addons to koffice's kivio tool, they can be found here for those that are interested.
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kivio/stencils.php3 However I will definately look into Dia, and give feedback, maybe over the weekend when i have a free slot On 15/02/2008, Substation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should try using: > > "Dia Diagram Editor" > > Available as a debian package and in yum, currently version 0.96 > > It supports UML so you shouldn't have too much difficulty as a > cross-over to linux from visio 2003/2005. Just remember to export as UML > and not a visio document and rebuild from there-on. > > Hope that helps > J. > > > > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 00:40 +0000, Richard Forth wrote: > > My mission as you all know (preaching to the already converted I know) > > is to try and wean myself off Windows. One of the tools I love and use > > everyday at work in my job as network /sysadmin / teaboy is MS Visio. > > > > So Tonight I sat down and decided I wasnt going to bed until I found > > an OSS Visio equivalent for Linux, I found a semi good one already > > installed on my PC, although I know most of you balk at the mention of > > it, but OpenOffice.org's oodraw does a not too bad a job, the only > > thing is that it does not come with any fancy pictures of computers > > servers firewalls and routers etc for nice pretty network topology > > plans that I use, so you have to be pretty openmided and inventive > > with the "shapes" that are part of it. > > > > (if anyone knows how to get all the computer hardware images for > > oodraw, please reply!) > > > > However, I found a better tool that does a slightly better job on the > > visio-esqueness front, its koffice's "kivio", this looks very similar > > to Visio, as you expect by the similar sounding name, the symbols for > > computer hardware and network topology do come with it, although they > > are not as pretty as those that come with Viso (kivio symbols are > > either 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional wireframes), but hey it does the > > job. > > > > One thing I havet tried yet is opening a Visio document in an OSS > > solution, (thinking of OOo's abillity to open word docs and > > presentations) anyone got any experience of Visio / open source > > compatibility?? > > > > -- > > ***** > > Richard Forth > > > > "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" > > > > ***** > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peterboro mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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