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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5437314" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>There are various FOSS programs you could try. I'm not sure which features of Visio made it especially attractive, so I am not sure if these are good alternatives or not, but they're programs I've used.</p><p></p><p>Open Office Draw - This is the diagramming package for Open Office. It is more equivalent to PowerPoint than to Visio, but is quite capable if what you're after is drawing shapes, lines, fills, etc. Pretty straightforward to use and I think you can import Visio diagrams, at least to some extent.</p><p></p><p>Inkscape - This is a full featured vector graphics program similar to things like Quark or Adobe Illustrator. A fine program, kind of the equivalent of GIMP to Photoshop for the vector graphics world. Definitely more of a learning curve than something like Draw, but also infinitely more powerful. You can do professional quality maps in this for sure. </p><p></p><p>I think either one might be a useful free alternative to Visio. Visio has a lot of sophisticated features, but most of them are more oriented to things like software engineering work and such. There are many many other open source drawing programs too BTW. Dia for example. KOffice has one that is similar to Draw. I've done a bunch of overland maps with Inkscape personally. The only caveat I'd give you there is the program is pretty hungry for RAM, 4 gigs is your friend (but thankfully cheap these days). Helps to have a reasonably modern CPU as well, but nowadays even really low-end machines are fine in that department as long as it is something made in the last 3-4 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5437314, member: 82106"] There are various FOSS programs you could try. I'm not sure which features of Visio made it especially attractive, so I am not sure if these are good alternatives or not, but they're programs I've used. Open Office Draw - This is the diagramming package for Open Office. It is more equivalent to PowerPoint than to Visio, but is quite capable if what you're after is drawing shapes, lines, fills, etc. Pretty straightforward to use and I think you can import Visio diagrams, at least to some extent. Inkscape - This is a full featured vector graphics program similar to things like Quark or Adobe Illustrator. A fine program, kind of the equivalent of GIMP to Photoshop for the vector graphics world. Definitely more of a learning curve than something like Draw, but also infinitely more powerful. You can do professional quality maps in this for sure. I think either one might be a useful free alternative to Visio. Visio has a lot of sophisticated features, but most of them are more oriented to things like software engineering work and such. There are many many other open source drawing programs too BTW. Dia for example. KOffice has one that is similar to Draw. I've done a bunch of overland maps with Inkscape personally. The only caveat I'd give you there is the program is pretty hungry for RAM, 4 gigs is your friend (but thankfully cheap these days). Helps to have a reasonably modern CPU as well, but nowadays even really low-end machines are fine in that department as long as it is something made in the last 3-4 years. [/QUOTE]
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