[Discuss] Flow Charting

[John Blomfield]

George Farris wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 13:43 -0800, John Blomfield wrote:
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>> Patrick wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:20:55 -0800
>>> "Lloyd Budd" wrote:
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>> I've now tried Dia and my initial evaluation is that Dia is designed to 
>> be a much more comprehensive drawing program not just a simple flow 
>> chart program like kivio. You can draw electrical circuits, all sorts of 
>> engineering simbols, etc. Dia's drag and drop, repositioning is a little 
>> easier than kivio (less edgy ) but as far as flow diagrams are concerned 
>> is functionally the same.  The big advantage of kivio for me is that the 
>> printing function is superior in that it provides a flexible printing 
>> interface that is easy to understand.  kivio printing is "what you see 
>> is what you get" and you can preview a page, see where you stuff is on 
>> the page and set up the printer or page layout.  With Dia I haven't 
>> figured out yet if the scale is in cm or inches or where the diagrams 
>> are on the "printing page"!  I doubt if kivio is any more resource 
>> hungry than Dia since Dia has all the additional drawing symbols stored 
>> somewhere but I haven't done any tests to find out.
>>     
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> In Dia the is a property you can set that basically scales 1:1
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But there are no units on the coordinate axes, so are they inches, cm, 
or pixels? 1 to 1 of what, the screen or the printer? And where your 
diagram is relative to the page margins?
John
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