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  • Love the Dia tool. Have been using it since 2002 for a variety of diagramming needs. Easy to use and very flexible. And today I learned something new. How to copy objects from one Dia diagram to another!! You guys rock!
  • Is not working with me, I have MacBook M1 Chip
  • I have used this free app to create many presentations. It is excellent. Best value for FREE. The only gripe I have is the level of difficulty in saving it in other formats, such as Power Point or PNG.
  • I would've given this software 5 stars if there was a "print review" function. Large flowchart plus inability to change display units to inches (so I didn't know the actual size to choose the appropriate paper) resulted in a few tries in paper sizes and scaling to get it right on the page - especially converting to pdf. Having said that, this little program was easy to use; had all of the functionality I needed to produce a flowchart and has a lot of different options for output formats. Just a little clunky in being able to size the output. I think this is pretty great software when your company doesn't want to pay for Visio. (There should be an "N/A" next to "Support" - it was so simple I didn't need Support so I gave it a "4").
  • Downloaded to my MAC (Monterey 12.0.1). It asked to load XQuartz - not sure why, but I did it anyway. I want ti run the DIA app, it start and closed without even opening any window .... What do I miss?
  • Dear Sirs, We will check on three plattforms. (Linux, Windows and Mac) We plan to combine with AOO ( Apache Open Office ond / or LOO Libre Open Office) 1. Thank so far you for providing a stable installation and excellent documentation. 2. Thank you for the (easy to use looking) python possibilities. Gratefully and with kind regards Michael July 3rd 2021
  • Top Graphics Editor.
  • “Great share!”
  • Thanks for the program under a free open source license!
  • Great! (Although cluttered interface)
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Many years using it.
  • A tool that own its place. The closest opensource tool to Microsoft Visio comparing features. There is one little thing that I bother me sometime, lack of workspace manager (multi-workspace, saving/restoring). In a production environment, I usually prefer quick shapes search and picking while working on multiple areas (flow diagram, network, ..). Usually, I want to hide all shapes not required for specific project and want to have a specific color palettes applied on all shapes based on rich text document template I am preparing.
  • Not recommended if you're only after basic flowcharting software (rectangles, arrowed lines, etc). Contains a bunch of content I don't want and can't find the basics I do want. I've uninstalled.
  • Works great. I use it for drawing process flow diagrams and it has almost everything I want (other icons I have created...)
  • I have used Dia for my own side projects and, as a professor of computer science, I have recommended this tool to my students for their UML diagrams. I find Dia to be easier to use than others that I have tried, like Microsoft Visio. I like it's many features, including export to various image formats that enables me to create clean diagrams for use in things such as assignments and exams. Students like the fact that it is cross-platform, which enables them to use their personal computers with Windows, OSX, and Linux and share the .dia files. Some diagramming tools use templates that create a whole diagram for you. However, they tend to be hard to modify. With Dia, UML diagrams are build up by component. This provides more flexibility but can have its own issues and takes a bit more time. One issue that my students and I typically face is too few connection points on a class object. This makes it difficult to use autoroute and not have lines overlap.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • excellent! thanks
  • Such a wonderful too. I downloaded it about few hours ago and loved it by now.
  • basic editor for basic diagrams, if you want some serious stuff, than look elsewere.. what i do mostly in dia is drawing state diagrams, with this complaints: - line routing is really bad, i spend so much time with just fighting routing algorithms in dia, with poor results, this is really the deal breaker, - lock to edge point doesnt work, i want to stick the line with one of edge points, but when i grab the line, than i grab the line and the end point doesnt stick to the edge of element, this is really another deal breaker, - some serious UI problems (Enter doesnt confirm some mostly used dialogues, i have to click or use a shortcut), - no much other features, - development doesnt exist, no new version for several years, probably abandoned application.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • Doesn't work on OS X El Capitan.
  • Very great tool, easy to use and powerful at the same time, but there are two features i would like to see, if possible!! - Modify only a part of text in a box (now you can modify only the entire box) -Select text in a box (now you can't select text in a box)
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • Очень удобная, легковесная программа, использовалась как бесплатная альтернатива визио от редмондовских прогеров.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • very nice tool and it is free too.
  • cool
  • Very good program!
  • I want to know where is the option of "Align connected"? Then i will rate
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