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Kivio
Kivio
Posted May 5, 2004 2:20 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors by vblum
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors
Kivio is the KDE answer to Visio -- a vector diagram editor rather than a
vector drawing program like Illustrator and Kontour (dunno about
Karbon14).
Kivio probably would fit well in this lineup.
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Kivio: not as good as dia?
Posted May 5, 2004 3:40 UTC (Wed) by pjm (subscriber, #2080) [Link]
Dia seemed much better than kivio last I looked, and a casual glance didn't reveal any advantages (unless you strongly prefer kde widgets over gtk). I haven't spent much time with kivio though; can anyone give a reason to use kivio rather than dia? E.g. is it good for importing & exporting, or printing or something?
Kivio: not as good as dia?
Posted May 6, 2004 8:37 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
I find Kivio quite a bit easier to use than Dia -- especially with theversion currently in the KOffice cvs, which is polished and has a large
selection of stencil shapes, including all Dia's stencils. I use it for my
UML diagramming, my wife uses it to visualize the relations and plots in
her novels.
You can export your drawing to most bitmap file formats by choosing
Page/Export Page -- the File/Export only exports to native or Oasis
format, because Kivio can group drawings in one document.