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 Dia 0.91 (Default)
Section: Unix

 

Added: Wed, Aug 19th 1998 15:47 UTC (10 years, 1 month ago) Updated: Wed, Aug 25th 2004 08:45 UTC (4 years, 1 month ago)


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Dia is a program for creating diagrams of all kinds. The current version can do UML class diagrams, Entity-Relationship modeling, network diagrams, and much more. The engine is very flexible and dynamically loads diagram-types from disk. It stores diagrams in an XML format, but can read and write a number of different formats.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
GTK 2.0 is now used. FreeType or Windows native fonts are now used instead of X font services, improving display/print similarity. Some usability improvements were made. More objects handle default settings (double-clicking the icon). The renderer backends were redone, so the process of making a renderer is much easier, yet more powerful. Better arrows that don't overshoot lines and an autosave feature was added. More exporters were added (XSLT, JPEG, PNG). Python scripting was improved. Comments may now be attached to UML classes. Many new shapes were added, including over 200 Cisco shapes. Support for animated objects was added. Many, many bugs were fixed.

Author:
Lars Clausen [contact developer]

Rating:
7.88/10.00 (28 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.gnome.org/[..]b/gnome/sources/dia/0.94/dia-0.94.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://ftp.gnome.org/[..]/gnome/sources/dia/0.94/dia-0.94.tar.bz2
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/index.html

Trove categories: [change]
[Environment]  X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: Gnome
[Intended Audience]  End Users/Desktop
[License]  OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]  C
[Topic]  Desktop Environment :: Gnome, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based

Dependencies: [change]
Freetype 2.0.9 (required)
GTK+ 2.2.0 (required)
libxml2 2.3.9 (required)
Pango 1.2.0 (required)
libart 2.3.10 (recommended)
libpng (Default branch) (recommended)
The XSLT C library for GNOME (Default branch) (optional)
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Project admins: [change]
» Lars Clausen (Owner)
» Lars Clausen (Owner)

» Rating: 7.88/10.00 (Rank 381)
» Vitality: 0.01% (Rank 4783)
» Popularity: 13.43% (Rank 123)

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 Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs
Default 0.94 25-Aug-2004 GNU General Public License (GPL) Homepage Tar/GZ

 Releases

Version Focus Date
0.94 Minor feature enhancements 25-Aug-2004 15:45
0.93 Major bugfixes 04-May-2004 19:52
0.91 Major feature enhancements 17-Mar-2003 17:54
0.90 Major feature enhancements 01-Jun-2002 17:04
0.88.1 Major feature enhancements 20-May-2001 05:27
0.86 N/A 06-Aug-2000 14:08
0.85 N/A 26-May-2000 00:21
0.84 N/A 29-Feb-2000 03:58
0.83 N/A 25-Dec-1999 19:39
0.82 N/A 14-Dec-1999 21:30

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 Comments

[»] Thanks for not restricting this.
by jfz - Sep 8th 2006 20:08:22

Just wanted to say thanks for making such a useful
tool and not restricting it to KDE /GNOME.

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[»] How to Set a Scale (e. g. 1:50)?
by Tobias Besch - Feb 2nd 2006 06:52:25

Hi,

I’m new to Dia.
It looks very good. Congratulations to the developers!

I’d like to draw up a building plan and haven’t found a way to set the scale of the canvas (e. g. 1:50).

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Cheers,

Tobias

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[»] Latex labels in dia
by Leonid L - Feb 25th 2005 21:07:53

I love dia, but I have to switch to some other editors such as ipe and xfig when I need good looking latex-style labels on my diagrams. Dia would be golden if it had the same option.

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[»] DIA for Windows
by Space Tux - Jun 13th 2004 03:39:59

Hi All!

Dia is an excellent tool to create diagrams. I had some trouble first to put these diagrams into my Word (Office XP) documents, but when you install Adobe's SVG viewer plugin and export your diagrams to the SVG format, you get excellent scalable diagrams!

At the moment of writing:

http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html

PS. For Java UML Diagramming I prefer Jude! Go check it out!

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[»] Trying to use it in Windows
by Myles - Jan 19th 2004 14:10:38

Forget it. You'd think I'm the first person to ever try to import a dia diagram into MS Word. I can't find a file format that works correctly. Makes it unusable to me and who knows how many others.

Very frustrating that it's close to being a solid product but there are so many annoyances that I can't use it (no hot key to toggle grid snap!?!?! or at least alloy using <alt> to get you off grid while dragging). Sometimes middle mouse drag will scroll the canvas, sometimes it won't. Soooo shoddy.

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    [»] Re: Trying to use it in Windows
    by Lars Clausen - May 4th 2004 11:23:43


    > Forget it. You'd think I'm the first

    > person to ever try to import a dia

    > diagram into MS Word. I can't find a

    > file format that works correctly. Makes

    > it unusable to me and who knows how many

    > others.

    I've had good luck with the WMF format, which can be
    exported in the Windows version of Dia (having access
    to a Windows library for it). Unfortunately, Word
    doesn't understand a whole lot of open formats.


    > Very frustrating that it's close to

    > being a solid product but there are so

    > many annoyances that I can't use it (no

    > hot key to toggle grid snap!?!?! or at

    > least alloy using <alt> to get you

    > off grid while dragging). Sometimes

    > middle mouse drag will scroll the

    > canvas, sometimes it won't. Soooo

    > shoddy.

    Ctrl-G is already used for Grouping and Ctrl-S for save,
    not sure what else would be logical. Using Alt to turn it
    off during dragging might be useful. Middles mouse
    drag scrolls the canvas if the middle mouse button it
    not taken by a context menu (except the bastard
    Windows always grabs the middle mouse button for
    scrolling, regardless of what the app wants)

    -Lars

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[»] Wow
by John Chapin - Feb 5th 2003 09:49:51

Awesome program. Installed from debian's package collection, and have been using it steadily for the past couple of hours, producing process flow charts. Zero to Productive in less than 5 minutes. Thanks.

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[»] clipboard
by maHo - Jan 6th 2003 15:13:14

nice program, but unusable for me. i need to draw function calling in my app, including source code, and under windows. unforunately under M$ doesn't work clipboard paste. so i cannot paste my source to graph.

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    [»] Re: clipboard
    by Lars Clausen - May 5th 2004 01:19:46


    > nice program, but unusable for me. i

    > need to draw function calling in my app,

    > including source code, and under

    > windows. unforunately under M$ doesn't

    > work clipboard paste. so i cannot paste

    > my source to graph.

    Pasting into normal text objects can be done with Edit->Paste Text, in properties dialogs with normal Ctrl-V under Windows.

    -Lars

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      [»] Re: clipboard
      by maHo - May 5th 2004 01:29:38


      >

      >

      > Pasting into normal text objects can be

      > done with Edit->Paste Text, in

      > properties dialogs with normal Ctrl-V

      > under Windows.

      >

      > -Lars

      >

      believe me, that it didn't work. But it was more then one 1 ago, so I don't remember details. Maybe it's fixed now

      maHo

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[»] Dia is awesome
by Shane Mason - Oct 31st 2002 23:46:43

Dia has saved my life several times, or at least kept me from having to use Windows (Visio or Rational Rose). It is products like this that keep Linux/BSD/UNIX users going.

Thanks guys

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[»] Outstanding!
by Michael B. Allen - Nov 19th 2001 01:51:31

This application is genuinely good. As a developer I can tell that some thought really went into this code. It can generate high quality postcript figures quickly and easily. Need a network diagram ... zap. Need a schematic of a screen layout ... bang. So far nothing with respect to the layout engine surprised me. Very consistent. The page layout controls are fantastic. You can generate/print very nice postscript. I would rather the right-click menu have some of the more commonly used items at the root (delete, object specific properties) and it would be great if some settings could be saved for future settings (e.g scale) but all of the fundamentals are there. Outstanding job folks! Thank you.

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    [»] Re: Outstanding!
    by Lars Clausen - May 4th 2004 11:32:12


    > This application is genuinely good. As a

    > developer I can tell that some thought

    > really went into this code. It can

    > generate high quality postcript figures

    > quickly and easily. Need a network

    > diagram ... zap. Need a schematic of a

    > screen layout ... bang. So far nothing

    > with respect to the layout engine

    > surprised me. Very consistent. The page

    > layout controls are fantastic. You can

    > generate/print very nice postscript.

    Thank you! I'm very happy that you find it so useful.


    > I

    > would rather the right-click menu have

    > some of the more commonly used items at

    > the root (delete, object specific

    > properties)

    Properties entry has gone to the context menu, delete
    and some other things could reasonably go there too.
    Good idea.


    > and it would be great if

    > some settings could be saved for future

    > settings (e.g scale) but all of the

    > fundamentals are there. Outstanding job

    > folks! Thank you.

    Scale setting is now saved along with the diagram.

    -Lars

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[»] Looks promising, but still a ways to go
by Greg Ward - Mar 9th 2000 08:08:19

Dia looks like a very promising start at a real diagram-drawing tool for the free software world. The biggest drawback right now is the near-total lack of documentation. The fundamental UI -- drawing lines and boxes and things, and connecting them up in intelligent ways -- works *very* nicely. But the rest of the UI -- menus, tool modes, saving/exporting, etc. -- has a lot of little annoyances. Nothing fatal, just a continual source of friction between me and the program.

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[»] Very useful
by badben - Sep 20th 1999 14:19:41

This is a really cool application.

Of course, it is not as powerful as Visio (Scriping, Thousands of Icons), but the basic functionality works.

If you're an serious programmer, this is, what you waited for.

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    [»] Re: Very useful
    by Lars Clausen - May 5th 2004 11:20:32


    > This is a really cool application.

    >

    > Of course, it is not as powerful as

    > Visio (Scriping, Thousands of Icons),

    > but the basic functionality works.

    >

    > If you're an serious programmer, this

    > is, what you waited for.

    Only got about 600 icons, most of which are Cisco
    items. But we could start taking icons from other
    places, i.e. XFig. And scripting we have, though only
    Python at the moment, and not too well integrated.

    -Lars

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