Drawing software?

What software do you use to draw your flowcharts / PDA / FA / etc. ?
I've used dia in the past and even tried "drawing" in kcolourpaint for assignment 1 but none of these are satisfactory.

I used MS Visio (we got a version with one of the INF subjects) and also MS Publisher.
You can also go the long route and use MS Paint.

Reanie Wrote:
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> I used MS Visio (we got a version with one of the
> INF subjects) and also MS Publisher.

Thanks Reanie, but I didn't do those INF courses so I don't have that software and in any case I'm using Linux.

> You can also go the long route and use MS Paint.

I tried that recently with kcolourpaint (the linux version/clone of ms paint) and it's doable but painful

I just installed dia. It works well enough, it was just very buggy and crashed a lot the last time I used it (about 2 years ago). Hopefully it's more stable now.

Update:
Dia is definitely more stable and much nicer to use. I had no problems this time and it works quite well for drawing PDAs.

I use Open Office

Rick Wrote:
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> I use Open Office

Thanks Rick. I just played around with OO.o Draw now and it also works very nicely for doing flowcharts / PDAs.

Word 2007 works nicely for me, but if you want an alternative, use DIA (dia is ok once you have made friends with the Undo button...)

I used http://www.graphviz.org/

rezrovs Wrote:
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> I used http://www.graphviz.org/

Thanks for this, it's exactly what I was looking for. I tried it out today and it rocks.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. There are some things I still struggle with but on the whole it produces nice graphs