[Cialug] Open Source FlowCharts?

[Nathan C. Smith]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Stien [mailto:nathanism at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:46 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Open Source FlowCharts?
> 
> On 5/23/07, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anybody have a recommendation for open source (hopefully 
> multiplatform
> > "windows"+) that makes flowcharts easily?  Like with a 
> Wizard for simple
> > ones?
> 
> You might want to look at ArgoUML [1] which is Java-based and fairly
> well documented.  I have also played around with Umbrello [2], but
> it's pretty entrenched in KDE so it would be a severe PITA on Windows.
> 
> [1]: http://argouml.tigris.org/
> [2]: http://uml.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Jeffrey C. Ollie mentioned Inkscape, which I really really like as a
> vector drawing program.  However, unless there's some mode or plugin I
> don't know about, it's kind of the wrong level of abstraction.  Your
> primitives are comparably low-level bezier curves and such, not true
> flowchart primitives.


Jeff usually knows so I started digging around for flowcharting in Inkscape.
I didn't find anything *in* the program.  Could be a nice plugin.

I've used DIA before, last time I tried it had real problems printing in
Windows, but I will check it again.  Thanks for the pointer to ArgoUML.

-Nate