[PLUG] Visio on Linux?

[Jason R. Martin]

On 1/17/06, John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2006, at 6:17, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> >    If that's not to your liking, there are about 18 other 2D drawing
> > applications among which to choose. Some are sketch, ipe, tgif, xfig,
> > jpicedt, and gri.
>
> Tried the above suggestions:
>
> 1) Sketch installed, but did not make an entry in the Applications
> launch menu. I tried to run it from the command line with "sketch."
> This produced several lines of options I am supposed to use, not
> one of which I could understand. There is no man page and, of
> course, no help file. I uninstalled it.
>
> 2) Ipe installed fine and ran OK, although I had to launch it from the
> command line. But text handling is pathetic. You can't even select
> the font. Uninstalled it.
>
> 3) Tgif ran OK, but again I had to launch it from the command line.
> Text handling is better, but it sees only six fonts. Evidently it does
> not see what is installed in the system. And for point size you get
> your choice of "tiny," "large," etc. Uninstalled it.
>
> 4) After reading about xfig I decided it was not what I need, so I
> skipped it.
>
> 5) Jpicedit is not listed in Synaptic. Must mean it won't run on a 64-
> bit system. I could probably install it in Chroot, but unless I hear
> great things about it, I'll pass.
>
> 6) Also skipped gri. Evidently it is only command line, which
> means it is not usable for my purposes.
>
> However, I looked through Synaptic under the Graphics tab and
> found one more that looked promising -- Cenon. I installed it, but
> can't get it to run. It did not install a launch link in the Applications
> menu and when I type "cenon" at the command line it says
> "command not found." The actual app name is cenon.app, but that
> also gives "command not found." I went to the home page and read
> the FAQ, but didn't find any explanation. However, there were
> screenshots showing that it might well be what I need. Synaptic
> says it is installed. Now all I need to do is figure out how to launch
> it.
>
> Otherwise it looks like it's either kivio (which I still can't get to run),
> stick with OpenOffice.org, or wait until next year when Scribus
> matures some more.

Would something like Inkscape work for what you're trying to do?

Jason