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Drawio is great, I particularly love how you can export a png and include the drawio source embedded in the png.

by midasuni 5y ago

castratikron 5y ago
Did not know that second part!
cosmotic 5y ago
Just like Macromedia Fireworks in 1998!
- nopenopenopeno 5y ago
  I have glorious memories of using Macromedia Fireworks at that time. I was 13 years old in 1998. I wish I had a better idea of why I loved it so much but I don’t recall what was different between it and Photoshop.
  - comprev 5y ago
    The integration with Flash, Freehand and UltraDev I seem to remember was good. Being able to edit one file embedded in another program was a neat feature.
shagie 5y ago
It is one of the great features that makes it my first choice for drawings. I've used it for the png diagrams on a bit I wrote about the skip list ( https://shagie.net/2015/05/18/the-skip-list/ https://shagie.net/2015/05/18/the-skip-list/ ) so that I could go back and be able to manipulate the drawing that its based on (import from - url - https://shagie.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Untitled-Diagram-18.png https://shagie.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Untitled-Diagr... ) rather than the pixels in the image.
878654Tom 5y ago
That is indeed a killer feature. One file that displays universally on all browsers or image-viewers while still also being the file that you can easily edit. I've also noticed it doesn't make the file that much bigger. (1-10KiB with some of my larger drawings)
FooBarWidget 5y ago
You can even export a SVG that embeds the drawio source. This is how I make diagrams for my projects: I can display them directly from my README, and after editing them in Draw.io's Visual Studio Code extension, I don't have to go through another export step.
heisenbit 5y ago
I has become my go-to tool for many reasons. - there is an electron version but also a web version which almost works as well which can be great in environments where downloading an electron app is hard. - many enterprises with Confluence have a plugin in Confluence for embedding drawio. - embedding the source in .png etc. - support for UML shapes without forcing me to obey all the rules allowing for quick and dirty sketches. - quick to use, decent usability. - acceptable learning curve so I feel ok recommending it to others.
- lf-non 5y ago
  There is also a convenient (unofficial) vscode extension [1] for people who don't want to install yet another electron app but already have vscode. It is able to open & edit local files without going through the upload/download dance. [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.vscode-drawio https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.v...
  - davidjgraph 5y ago
    It's unofficial, but the core team has a good relationship with the author, we help him with issues wherever possible.

Drawio is great, I particularly love how you can export a png and include the drawio source embedded in the png.

castratikron 5y ago

Did not know that second part!

cosmotic 5y ago

Just like Macromedia Fireworks in 1998!

nopenopenopeno 5y ago
I have glorious memories of using Macromedia Fireworks at that time. I was 13 years old in 1998. I wish I had a better idea of why I loved it so much but I don’t recall what was different between it and Photoshop.
- comprev 5y ago
  The integration with Flash, Freehand and UltraDev I seem to remember was good. Being able to edit one file embedded in another program was a neat feature.

shagie 5y ago

It is one of the great features that makes it my first choice for drawings. I've used it for the png diagrams on a bit I wrote about the skip list ( https://shagie.net/2015/05/18/the-skip-list/ https://shagie.net/2015/05/18/the-skip-list/ ) so that I could go back and be able to manipulate the drawing that its based on (import from - url - https://shagie.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Untitled-Diagram-18.png https://shagie.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Untitled-Diagr... ) rather than the pixels in the image.

878654Tom 5y ago

That is indeed a killer feature. One file that displays universally on all browsers or image-viewers while still also being the file that you can easily edit. I've also noticed it doesn't make the file that much bigger. (1-10KiB with some of my larger drawings)

FooBarWidget 5y ago

You can even export a SVG that embeds the drawio source. This is how I make diagrams for my projects: I can display them directly from my README, and after editing them in Draw.io's Visual Studio Code extension, I don't have to go through another export step.

heisenbit 5y ago

I has become my go-to tool for many reasons. - there is an electron version but also a web version which almost works as well which can be great in environments where downloading an electron app is hard. - many enterprises with Confluence have a plugin in Confluence for embedding drawio. - embedding the source in .png etc. - support for UML shapes without forcing me to obey all the rules allowing for quick and dirty sketches. - quick to use, decent usability. - acceptable learning curve so I feel ok recommending it to others.

lf-non 5y ago
There is also a convenient (unofficial) vscode extension [1] for people who don't want to install yet another electron app but already have vscode. It is able to open & edit local files without going through the upload/download dance. [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.vscode-drawio https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.v...
- davidjgraph 5y ago
  It's unofficial, but the core team has a good relationship with the author, we help him with issues wherever possible.