[ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Thu Jan 29 13:55:14 EST 2009


Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a web developer and I used to use Microsoft Visio to create my web site
>> maps and other flow charts.  I'm now using OpenOffice and I believe Draw is
> 
> Dia of course,but it looks like Kivio does more, It even runs under Gnome well.
> On ubuntu/debian: apt-get install kivio

Does kivio on debian give you more templates?  On Fedora there's only 
one.  Dia has a number, looks like 30+.

> 
> If you are more into graphics.. 
> While you could do it in Gimp, Inkscape rocks and would be more like
> doing it in Adobe Illustrator. I've done sales and marketting style flow
> charts in Inkscape and been pretty happy with them.

Yeah, in my mind, gimp is really a photshop replacement, whereas, 
Inkscape it the Illustrator solution.

> OpenOffice Draw works, but for some reason I find it klunky,
> probably because I don't use it enough to get good at it.

Agreed.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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