What program for authoring flowcharts

[James Freer]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Doug wrote:

> On 06/12/2012 11:00 AM, Ryan Gauger wrote:
>> On 06/12/2012 08:56 AM, Steve Flynn wrote:
>>> On 12 June 2012 14:48, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> I do all of my graphical documentation using GraphViz
>>>>> (http://www.graphviz.org/).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any use?
>>>> Interesting idea.  I didn't know about this package.  However....
>>>> 
>>>> It's not obvious how best to use this for flowcharts.  I like to
>>>> control layout, but much of the purpose of this package seems to be to
>>>> do automatic layout.  Moreover, there's a lot of markup I usually do
>>>> -- mainly cross-references between pages, but commentary too -- that
>>>> doesn't seem to fit in.
>>> Indeed - that was why I was hesitant in suggesting it to you. Whilst I
>>> rarely have to write flowcharts I do a lot of state diagrams, which
>>> can get quite complex - the algorithmic layout engine can make the
>>> best of a tough job for me. How you'd fare with trying to generate a
>>> flowchart is a bit of an unknown.
>>> 
>>> A quick google search throws up
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbye/sets/72157601523153827/detail/ (I
>>> can't see the pictures on there thanks to the proxy here at work)
>>> 
>> IMHO, the best way to create a flowchart is with either OpenOffice Draw, or 
>> LibreOffice Draw. I don't know if there is still a way to install 
>> OpenOffice, since LibreOffice has replaced it starting with Natty. Thanks!
>> 
> Using another KDE distro (pclos) I decided to try OO--I installed it from 
> their website.
> It comes in RPM format, so you should be able to install it without a problem 
> in
> a KDE distro.  I also have LO on the machine, and IBM Symphony, and they 
> don't
> interfere with each other.  In spite of some serious glitches in Symphony, I 
> much
> prefer it--it looks and acts "finished" even tho it's actually not. But I 
> don't do
> flowcharts with any of them.  Absent a real flow-chart program, I'd go to 
> Windows
> and use AutoCAD.  And if I had to do flowcharts on a regular basis, I'd buy a
> program, and if it had to run on Windows, so be it!  The correlations and so 
> on
> in a real flow-charter beats heck out of just drawing boxes and lines.
>
> --doug

diagram editor called dia also has gnome variant. in *buntu repos as is msc.

I'm sure i've used dia but not msc

james