Data Modeling tools

[Liberty Young]

I like how version 0.91 has more stuff and more dialogs...though
Mandrake 9.0 doesn't have rpms for 0.91, i just compiled it...though now
the text in my objects are waaaay too small!!! even bumping them up as
far as they can go  (10), it's too small to be readable..

Any suggestions? has anybody else compiled dia?

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 22:58, Ted Gould wrote:
> I would still say that Dia isn't as smooth as Visio, but it's the best
> open source utility for this kind of stuff that I've found.  For the
> most part, anything that I can do in Visio I can do in Dia (minus the
> nifty database backend stuff).
> 
> If you haven't tried Dia 0.91 you might look at that, there have been
> several cleanups on the UI, and it is now GTK 2.0.  I personally like it
> better than older versions.  It is starting to become more GNOME HIG
> compliant.
> 
> As a FYI, there are quite a few tools that will turn Dia files into
> other 'stuff'.  Just guessing at what you are doing, but there is a
> dia2sql script out there...
> 
> 		--Ted
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 16:00, Liberty Young wrote:
> > I'm looking for a quick and off-shelf data modeling tool, especially
> for
> > ERDs...the default ERD figures that come with xfig are few and
> outdated.
> > Plus, i don't like the user interface of xfig, especially when
> compared
> > to an excellent product like Visio. I haven't looked into kivio, but i
> > don't want to install KDE and kde office for just one program. Dia is
> > okay, but again, it feels klunky and i don't see any good ERD figures
> in
> > there. 
> > 
> > Again, my only beef is the lack of ERD figures and the interfaces are
> > klunky. 
> > 
> > I'm sad to say it, but right now, Visio is still the best tool I've
> seen
> > (at least, for smaller projects, i have yet the pleasure of working on
> > super huge systems yet :)
> > 
> > 
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