On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:14:53AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Because I draw like a crab :-) > > Also, I suppose I have become spoiled by Visio's ability to quickly > draw, redraw and move shapes easily. It is hardly painful at all to make > major changes to a flowchart in Visio. Compare that to Kivio where > something as simple as aligning shapes is a big problem. For instance, > the Input/Output shape cannot be aligned properly in Kivio because the > connection points are in the wrong places. So now you have to make your > own points, and somehow make sure everything lines up. In Visio (and in > openoffice) this was a simple thing to do since the points are offset in > order to make the shape and the lines line up, with each other and with > the other shapes.
Flowchart shapes are few and simple with text in the middle. Could you use LaTex or Lout with a pdf or dvi reader to view? Anything that can put primitive geometric shapes on a page will do it, some more conveniently than others. Installing OO just for this seems like nuclear overkill. Before I had xfig, I was running OS/2. The only drawing program I had was AutoCad 11. Using a mult-thousand dollar program to draw flowcharts was certainly overkill but its what I had. Many diciplines use flowcharts where psudocode would be inapropriate. Usually, they describe decision trees and workflow. Computer programmers may think them old-fashioned but they are very worthwhile at the beginning of a programming project as a design tool. Doug.
