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Kivio: not as good as dia?
Kivio: not as good as dia?
Posted May 5, 2004 3:40 UTC (Wed) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)In reply to: Kivio by rfunk
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors
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?
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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.