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Does anything exist that would allow me to make LibreOffice Draw diagrams without fiddling with the mouse for hours? (And without drawing ascii boxes, please.)
by aasasd 8y ago
Does anything exist that would allow me to make LibreOffice Draw diagrams without fiddling with the mouse for hours? (And without drawing ascii boxes, please.) I.e. Mermaid, but with output to the Draw format.
I need to make a diagram for someone else, but the process of laying it out is annoying.
- Jwarder 8y agoIf you're familiar with GraphViz (I'm not familiar with MermaidJS, but the syntax of the graphs themselves look kinda-sorta the same) then you should be able to convert a text DOT file to SVG using GraphViz then edit the SVG in LibreOffice. I wouldn't want to do a ton of edits in LibreOffice because the generated SVG isn't the cleanest. I think it should do the job if your focus is on defining nodes and edges of a graph and don't want a specific layout at the end.
- aasasd 8y agoThe output is targeted for printing and then possibly further editing in the future, so I think SVG in LO will be unstable for that—that's why I'd prefer the native format. But guess I could try.
- wolfi1 8y agopic comes to (my) mind: http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v10/10thEdMan/pic.pdf http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v10/10thEdMan/pic.pdf
- aasasd 8y agoLooks like that's from the time of StarOffice 1.0, when I myself was but a wee lad, and before StarDraw. So not sure if there's any way to connect one to the other, and with the perfectly ungoogleable name the knowledge will probably never be mine.