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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:38:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Anybody use gschem to draw flowcharts?
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I'm not sure why I didn't think of Xfig, I've used it a little but not
for flow charts I don't think.  Also Libre Office Draw.  And a
shareware thing called SmartDraw under Windows 20 years ago or so.
But ultimately every flow chart I handed in was drawn (and redrawn) by
hand with my Pentel pencil on letter size printer paper. I'm getting
old enough that I have trouble reading them anymore.

In Xfig when I move a line it doesn't stay attached to the connected
objects, I don't think I've seen it do rubberbanding.  My Xfig in
Rasbian has 30 flowcharting symbols, I'll look into fig2sym.pl

Arrows (mainly up) could be symbols by themselves with connection
handles.  There's a program called Floch posted by a guy in the
Raspberry Pi forums but it's not object oriented at all, the concept
of attachment is beyond it.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=171127  It's
all just pixels.

On 3/14/19, karl AT aspodata DOT se <karl AT aspodata DOT se> wrote:
> Alan Corey:
>> You'd want a library of flowchart symbols but it needn't be extensive,
>> half a dozen or so to start. Gschem is a nice little CAD program in
>> its own right, knowing about objects and connecting lines to
>> attachment points, rubber banding, everything on a drawing can be
>> moved and stay connected.
> ...
>
> There are a few flowcharts available in xfig:
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfig
> and it have better rubberbanding modes than gschem, and it has lines
> with arrow ends.
>
> There is a converter fig->sym file formats:
>  http://aspodata.se/git/openhw/pdftosym/fig2sym.pl
> it isn't perfect, there are a few todo's which I could fix if there are
> interest.
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
>
>
>


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