Re: Summary: Flowcharting/Diagramming software

[Michelle Law <shell -at- CS -dot- UTK -dot- EDU>]

> Almost everyone (about 20 people) who e-mailed me and had used either
> Visio or Visio Technical was very enthusiastic about the program. I
> mean VERY--some of you went into RAPTURES about it! Consensus seems to
> be that it's easy to use, cuts time for producing flowcharts waaaay
> down, and has practically every shape you'll ever need. People are
> using it for flow charts, org charts, schematics, block diagrams, etc.
>
> One person felt that the quality of the graphics is "a little iffy for
> professional-looking documentation", but no-one else said that. One
> person had importing/exporting problems, and one noted that it takes
> up a lot of disk space.
>
Note that Visio is not supported AT ALL on the Mac platform (straight
from their tech support). This company I work for now has Visio
drawings embedded in Word documents; on the Mac the drawings look
bad, print even worse, and can't be manipulated at all.

I tried every graphic conversion trick I knew (admittedly, not many)
before giving up and editing the docs on Windoze. If anybody has the
trick, enquiring minds want to know...

Michelle Law

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