If you're a big-time open source fanatic like me, you probably get questions about open source alternatives to proprietary tools rather frequently. From the 'Alternatives to Microsoft® Visio®' department, here are three tips that should help designers who use Visio in an open source environment. If you need an open source option for opening Visio files, a revived open source application for creating diagrams, or a lesser-known open source tool for converting Visio® stencils, these tips are for you. Opening Visio files Open source tools haven't been able to open Visio (.VSD format) diagrams for a pretty long time. The format is commonly used for infrastructure and architecture documentation and planning—and less commonly, for user interface design and planning.

Sep 5, 2010 - MyDraw is an affordable and feature-rich diagram software for Mac and Windows. It comes with 100+ diagram templates and 700+ shapes, so you can quickly. Jul 7, 2018 - Works with: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and all Java Virtual Machine. Dia is a free open source online diagramming software that is strikingly.

Thankfully, Summer of Code students Eilidh McAdam and Fridrich Strba implemented support for opening.VSD format files in LibreOffice Draw last summer. This support is now available in Fedora's version of LibreOffice and has been since Fedora 17. (Screenshot of LibreOffice Draw opening up a Visio VSD diagram.) You can install LibreOffice Draw with the following command: yum install libreoffice-draw If you prefer to use Inkscape or any other open source SVG editor (such as Karbon14 or Xara,) Eilidh McAdam produced libvisio which works with the libwpd tools for converting.VSD files to.SVG—making it possible to open them in any SVG editor in Fedora. For Fedora 20, you'll need the libvisio and libvisio-tools packages that are now available, which you can install via the following command: yum install libvisio libvisio-tools These two projects are covered in detail in Libre Graphics World, including full instructions on. Note:There isn't a solution yet for writing out to.VSD format, but you can write out to.PDF, of course, which may serve your needs in sharing your modified and originally.VSD-format diagrams. Creating diagrams in a Visio-like environment Dia (A screenshot of Fedora 20′s Dia. We’ve highlighted how to turn on anti-aliasing, which might help your diagrams come out looking better.) Traditionally, has been the best game in town for open source diagramming, but it hasn't changed much over the years and requires a lot of tweaking and extra work to produce beautiful diagrams.

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For example, diagram graphics are not anti-aliased by default in Dia 0.97.2. We've highlighted how to enable this in the preferences dialog shown in the screenshot above.

You can install Dia with the following command: yum install dia Inkscape (Screenshot of an Inkscape development version, showing some diagramming capabilities including the symbols library and enhanced diagram connector tool.) is another option—my preferred one—but as a general vector graphics editing tool, it doesn't have the specialized niceities and workflow of a tool specifically focused on diagramming and takes a bit of experience to use it effectively for creating diagrams. We show the pre-release/development version of Inkscape,. Vmware workstation player install mac os x. While the diagram connector tool has been available in Inkscape for quite some time, the tool has been enhanced in the pre-release—check out the tool options bar above the canvas that corresponds to the tool. There are more options you can choose from in how the connector tool connects different objects in your drawing—you can fine-tune them a lot more fluidly now.

The Inkscape pre-release also features the relatively new symbols library feature not available in the version of Inkscape provided in the main repos. The, but there aren't any tutorials or anything around it yet. It basically provides you with a docked palette that lets you peruse different libraries of symbols or graphics—some of which are diagram/flow chart symbols—and drag them onto the canvas. Check out to learn how to get these new features.

Calligra Flow (Calligra Flow diagramming tool in Fedora 20.), which is part of the Calligra suite of productivity applications, is perhaps the best option tailored for someone looking to produce attractive diagrams using open source software. The lineage of this application can be traced back to the diagramming tool, which according to Wikipedia was initially released in October 2000. In mid 2010, of the KOffice project; not long after, Flow maintainer Yue Liu improving the stencil system and included stencils. Calligra Flow looks to be a pretty promising diagramming tool, so give it a shot! You can install Calligra Flow with the following command: yum install calligra-flow Converting Visio stencils (.VXD) to.SVG.