[ale] Taking the plunge

[Jeff Lightner]

Is OO Draw similar to Visio?   For that matter is there an OSS product
that would use or convert Visio docs into an OSS usable format?

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Matt
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [ale] Taking the plunge

Openoffice draw is not bad, more intuitive than dia and can export to
pdf.


On 8/15/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >
> > My second basic question is which office solution to use since I
have
> > to be compatible with the rest of the company/clients.  ie.
> > Interoperability is key.
> >
> > 1) Open Office 2.2 from the suse build service
> > 2) Sun Office (from ??)
> > 3) MS Office via wine (does it work?)
> > 4) MS Office in a Xen VM.
>
> I've used OpenOffice exclusively since 2002. When transferring files
> between OO Writer and Word in doc format, I had occasional problems
with
> lists and headings in the 1.x series, but nothing in recent memory.
Base
> is the only OO application I don't care for.
>
> > Question 3:
> > I need to make a Viseo type drawing today.  I can deliver it to
others
> > as a PDF.  What tool should I use?
>
> I've always used DIA because of the special objects it has for
> entity-relationship models, circuits, etc. I don't think it exports
> directly to pdf, but there's always cups-pdf. I've never used viseo so
I
> can't make a comparison.
>
> -Brian
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