On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:11, Nicu Buculei wrote: > SOTL wrote: > > Gimp may not be that bad but Dia certainly is. I have SuSE 10.1, Fedora > > 5, Mandrake 10.1, and Scientific Linux all with Dia all of which crash > > every time one attempts to write and save a stencil. > > And what has that to do with OpenOffice.org? Have you reported the crash > (maybe along with a backtrace) to Dia developers? > > And to become on-topic again, connectors in OOo Draw would be a good > replacement for Dia and OOo gallery can be used to collect stencils.
Dia is much like Kvivo which are both similar to MS Visio are in one aspect what computer types would call a flow chart program but they can be and are used for much more and really are simplified forms of AutoCAD Electrical which brings this to the central issue. Open Office being cross platform would do well to incorporate the features of Visio and AutoCad into Open Office Draw. The principal issue with this is not the complexity of the program but the ability to use existing stencils especially AutoCAD stencils and to read and write both Visio and AutoCAD drawings. All three of these functions, stencils, read, and write may have to be add-ins to Open Office as there could be DCSS type issues but they would be extremely useful to a large number of people world wide. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
