Hi all, In my personal opinion large diagrams seem to disrupt text flow in LyX (your mileage may vary). So my flowcharts are as small as possible without being unreadable. My flowcharts are created in the dia software (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/). After much experimentation I've come up with a set of dia settings for boxes, rectangles and elipses. These settings create the smallest objects whose text can be read on a 600 dpi printer after converting them to .eps and inserting them in your LyX document. Here are the settings: Line width: 0.10 Line colour: black Fill colour: white Draw background: yes Line style: solid Text padding: 0.05 (try 0.0, it might be even better, YMMV) Font Helvetica-Bold Font size: 0.20 Text colour: black Thanks Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.