Dia

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation tool.

More specifically, Dia is a tool for making diagrams and schematic illustrations for articles, books, documentation, modelling and other uses, inspired by Visio, but with a simple and intuitive interface.

Dia is designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

It can be scripted using the Python programming language.

Dia 0.96.1

Price Free to download Size 4.2MB License GNU GPL Developer Dia Developers Website live.gnome.org/Dia System Requirements GTK+ 2.4.0 or higher Pango 1.1.5 or higher libxml2 2.3.9 or higher freetype2 2.0.9 or higher intltool 0.21 or higher Support Sites: Dia Tutorial, MS Visio File Format Selected Reviews: Newsforge

Features include:

• Import and export of Visio VDX files
• Special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams.
• Loads and saves diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space)
• Exports diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, DXF, CGM, JPEG, XFIG, WMF and PNG
• Prints diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages)

Dia also features in our 'Linux Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category selector below allows you to filter the different types of software included in that separate article.

Last Updated Wednesday, August 12 2009 @ 02:02 PM EDT