On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:40:57AM -0700, Brian Rose wrote: > What is wrong with dia? Is it not compatible to Rational?
I hobble along with dia. While I can't comment on its compatibility with Rational Rose, it does have some definite problems in the UML template. Two that spring to mind (as of version 0.88.1-3, which appears to be the current version in testing): - Connectors will only draw vertical arrowheads. It makes layout of your diagrams significantly more challenging when you can only attack arrows to the top and bottom edges of the boxes without it looking awful. - The UML components only allow one font size: Fill-the-page-with- a-single-class. This can be worked around by scaling the entire document (50% works fine for me), but it's still a major nuisance. Pity the template's designer didn't realize that some of us are creating UML to use at our desks and don't need to be able to read it from across the room. > Is it > possible to write a converter between Rational and dia or > whatever-your-favourite-is or an XML file? dia's default format looks suspiciously like XML, provided you save it uncompressed. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
