From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 12:39:12 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 9FB4437B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:39:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC63A43EDC for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:39:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.101.253.54]) by fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.05.06 201-253-122-126-106-20020509) with ESMTP id <20021221203842.XMGX513731.fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com>; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:38:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3E04D168.6030405@rogers.com> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:39:04 -0500 From: Mike Jeays User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio References: <20021221163420.GD31504@raggedclown.net> <20021221202217.GA4851@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.101.253.54] using ID at Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:38:42 -0500 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 David Schultz wrote: >Thus spake Cliff Sarginson : > > >>I am looking for an application that will allow diagrams to be drawn >>(such as network topologies) similar to the Windows program Visio (I >>think that is what it is called). One that has some pre-defined >>shapes/lines etc suitable for technical use. Does anyone have any >>suggestions ... ? >> >> > >I can't think of a direct comparison any closer than xfig, and >xfig isn't as featureful as Visio. However, if you just want a >nice looking graph of network connections, and you're happy >letting the computer arrange the nodes (for the most part), try >graphviz. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Two other options are Kivio, part of the KDE office suite, and Draw, which is part of OpenOffice. Both claim to provide similar functionality to Visio. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message