I run visio in crossover linux without issues. -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) j...@twingeckos.com
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Michael Butash <m...@butash.net> wrote: > I hadn't, but just did... Doesn't look too bad, but I really need > bi-directional import and export of visio formats. That and I never really > use them for actual flow charts as most software seems to presume I want to > do. > > I end up doing some very detailed network diagrams for customers and > employers, where I've found nothing really comes close. All the network > vendors at very least dump out visio objects of their devices to work with, > and anything else is variable. Some do omnigraffle, which is great if you > (over)paid for a mac. I even do stuff like construction architectural > layouts in visio when working on my house. I built a full-scale > representation of my house I use to model my reconstruction efforts in. > Nothing else seems to offer the same flexibility as visio. > > I did/do occasionally use lucidchart, it's about the most compatible I've > found, but still does stupid things like not import layers properly, of > which I've had a bug/feature request (feature: make it actually work right) > for 2 years now. I use a lot of layers in my visios... > > Even libreoffice draw somewhat works with visios, but they're always > horribly broken rendering things for me when I try. I've never really > considered even trying to create one in it, but in a pinch I can at least > somewhat look at them without firing up my windoze vm. > > For pure networking, yEd was pretty cool, and someone went through and at > least converted most of the popular cisco stencils for it when last tried > in 2014 or so. Some of the cisco guys I knew were working with it > internally, so we tried using it at one of my last fte gigs years ago. It > was basic, good enough, but in no means as detailed as visio. We all just > sorta went back to using visio eventually. > > If only microsoft hadn't acquired them, it seems to be only going down > hill since visio 2007, much as microsoft has. > > -mb > > > > On 10/18/2016 10:48 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> On 10/18/2016 10:08 AM, Michael Butash wrote: >> >>> I'm still down to only visio I simply haven't found a suitable >>> replacement for yet. >>> >> >> Have you looked at Calligra Flow? I believe it even loads (but not >> saves) Visio files these days. I'm sure it's not as feature rich as Visio, >> but it might do enough to satisfy your needs. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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