Software for Making Company Diagrams?

Posted by Cliff on Friday August 6, 2004 @01:45PM from the vectorized-documentation dept.

gaudenz asks: "We have a network with Linux, Solaris, Mac and Windows and need a software to paint simple diagrams, such as used in deployment. The actual requirements are simple: The tool must export to postscript, support fonts, boxes with multiple lines of text, and connections between these boxes. We found Visio with VMWare to be the best solution, JGraphpad 5 looks promising, too. Since diagrams are a common thing in development companies I was hoping others have made a comparison, too, and may come up with some other ideas to solve this problem."

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Re:huh? by n0d3 · 2004-08-06 17:46 · Score: 2, Insightful

Concidering that VMWare is a few hundrerd and Office with Visio, I would say a native Linux app could save you on some VMWare costs, and a free app. even more?

Besides, if you are using Linux and all, it would be easyer and nice to have a good native app, a lot of overhead and so, then again, nobody cares about efficiency and such anymore, we'll just get a new CPU + ram right?
Re:xfig by jgrahn · 2004-08-06 19:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

Or, if you want diagrams with source code, use pic(1) and let troff render to Postscript. Or grap(1) - another bizarre troff preprocessor from the ancient past.