What program for authoring flowcharts

[James Freer]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:37 AM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

The other one i was trying to think of was kchart. There's a planning
app that can do flowcharts but can't remember what it's called.

james