While it's extremely old school, I still really like xfig. Its file format is reasonably human readable and it's great for box-and-line stuff.
--Gregory On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 10:27:41AM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Thank you all for your responses; I'll look into each of the proposed > alternatives to dia. Meanwhile, hopefully, the awesome MacPorts > developers/maintainers will be able to get dia working again with MacPorts. > > Thanks, > Ken Wolcott > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Ken, > > > > Not sure if this might work for you but I'm quite a fan of generating > > diagrams from an ASCII / text source, and I use PlantUML a lot for > > diagramming. It supports UML diagrams and many other diagram types as well, > > and is supported by MacPorts, though I usually download the .jar file > > rather than using MacPorts at this point. > > > > https://plantuml.com/ > > > > Smith > > > > > > > > On Dec 7, 2025, at 12:56 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi; > > > > What is a good alternative to 'dia'? > > > > Open source, works on MacOS arm64, or comes native with MacOS. > > > > Just want something very simple (elementary flowcharting). > > > > Thanks, > > Ken Wolcott > > > > > > > > > > Smith > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Smith Kennedy > > [email protected] > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > > >
