[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Open source visio file viewer

[Rob Sherwood]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:58:05AM -0500, craig wrote:
> And lyx to bind them all together.
> For me at least, lyx/LaTeX+xfig+graphviz/dotty+gnuplot output+gnumeric 
> output, produces a better final product (into PDF)
> than (word)+(visio)+(excel).   Nice detailed zoomable vector graphic 
> diagrams in the middle of a paper.
> 
> It just costs more (in time and effort) at least the first couple,..tens 
> of times.  (handmade furniture versus ikea furniture)

Fwiw, I use basically the same product suite, with the exception of tgif
instead of xfig (http://bourbon.usc.edu/tgif/).  If you aren't familiar,
it's worth checking out.  The features I like best over xfig are the way
you can apply changes to a group of objects (like select a set of objects
and change line/color/font properties of all at once) and the intelligent
auto-guessing of object placement when you're duplicating.  I'm not familiar
with Visio, but from what I'm reading this is probably not a visio replacement,
just a better xfig (IMHO).

- Rob
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