On Monday 26 February 2001 13:15, Bram Dumolin wrote: > > I want to draw some diagrams of a network showing things such as "user > > uploads files to an FTP server, FTP server uses rsync to push data to web > > server, users download data from web server". I want to do this will > > little boxes representing each machine etc. > > > > Years ago I used visio to do this on Windows. > > > > I tried Kivio (KDE visio-like program) but it doesn't allow me to specify > > types of lines between objects (I want arrows to show direction the data > > flows), it doesn't seem to allow labels on lines, and is generally > > klunky. > > > > Is there a good program in Debian that allows this? > > > > Please CC me direct when you reply, I'm not on the list. > > I'm not sure if this is what you want but try "dia" :)
Thanks, I'm using DIA and it's pretty good. It misses a few things such as the ability to put text in the center of a box and have the text get moved whenever the box gets moved. But generally it does what is required and hasn't crashed on me yet. I highly recommend that everyone who does basic web publishing of technical content install dia! A finished version of kivio would be a much better program, but unfortunately kivio SEGV's, it only saves as it's own format or PS (and broken PS at that), and doesn't do arrows properly. Thanks to Bram Dumolin for the reference to tkined (scotty). I haven't checked it out as dia is a program dedicated to my task which seems to work well. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
