On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Justin Wood <j.w...@bom.gov.au> wrote: > G'day nice people who built Dia, >
> I am moving away from Corel Draw due to my organisation being no longer > willing to pay licence fees and think that Dia is a decent substitute. Do > you have any plans to include grabable guidelines? Also being able to select > a tool and it staying selected for multiple lines, etc would be nice as well > (double click like format painter in word?). > Hi Justin, DIA is a great tool for making diagrams with pre-defined sheets, and it's especially useful if you'd like to convert the drawing to information to be used by other programs. In our company we use DIA UML sheets and transform the diagram into information that connects the diagrams to other parts of our development process. For example, our UML Class Diagrams are converted to SQL DDL automatically and thus drives our complete development model. BUT, if you are looking to replace Corel Draw, I don't DIA will fit the bill because it's not designed to do so. For that sort of application I think you will have better results with InkScape: http://inkscape.org Good luck, -- Alejandro Imass _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
