[Discuss] Flow Charting

[George Farris]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 13:43 -0800, John Blomfield wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:20:55 -0800
> > "Lloyd Budd" wrote:
> >
> >   
> 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.

In Dia the is a property you can set that basically scales 1:1