From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 7:45:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C18F37B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D7343E84 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 578574FC8A; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:43:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBFA4A0D for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:43:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:43:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Draft Presentation In-Reply-To: <20020816142433.GF389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:24:33 +0200 > From: Roman Neuhauser > To: Janine C. Buorditez > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Network Draft Presentation > > > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:10:08 +0200 > > From: Janine C.Buorditez > > To: questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Network Draft Presentation > > > > Hi. > > > > I was just wondering the best way to create and present a network > > draft which I am currently constructing for the future of this island. > > > > Ordinary ASCII would be a bit lame--at least for these people. I was > > thinking something like GIMP, or are there other, better and more > > convenient ways to show them how I plan to organize their network? > > /usr/ports/graphics/dia maybe? > I very often us Dia to construct the diagram and print it to a postscript file and then I use e.g. ps2pdf to convert that postscript file into a PDF. This works well for me as I send these to people on both M$ ans *nix boxes and everybody can ready it. Takes a little fiddling with document and font sizes to get it right but the end result is usually good. I use this same tactic with distributing documents originally penned in OpenOffice and Applix as well. HTH - JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message