Flow Chart Creation

[George Dvorak]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Guus Bonnema <gbonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I searched for *linux flowcharting** *and found some possibilities. Guus
mentioned what are probably the best candidates.

George

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