Flow Chart Creation

[Guus Bonnema]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:42:02 +1000
Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was looking at creating a basic flow chart to diagram some print and server 
> processes in our office, so tried Calligra Flow.
> 
> Over all a disaster.
> 
> The Good
> - nice selection of predefined images, easily search able
> 
> That was about it.
> 
> The bad
> - Crashes constantly
> - Corruptions of file
> - Zero help or guides
> - Was only ever able to get the line connector to anchor the start of a line
> - adding text titles to an image very much hit and miss. Often the text was 
> invisible or weirdly aligned.
> 
> It has a *long* way to go, not even alpha quality. Completely unusable,
> should not be in any distro's yet.
> 
> Looks like dia is my best bet at the moment, pedestrian, but functional. 
> Umbrello looked quite good but unless I was missing something not suited for 
> flow chart creation.

The two options that I have ever used are dia, which looks like one of the MS
products. The other one is dot from Graphviz. Look for Graphviz.

apt-get install graphviz graphviz-doc

You might have to get used to it at first, but I have found it a real life
saver.

The other one (dia) is like visio. I think it is production material but I
havent used it very often. 

You can search for packages using muon (GUI) or apt-cache (CLI).

Hope this helps.

Guus.