discuss: Thread: what to use for drawings

Hello,

I working on updating an HOWTO, and I need to draw something related to
PKI. I have Visio and it is appropriate template for this particular need.

I was wondering if there is a opensource drawing application, which has
PKI related symbols like Public Key, Privte Key , encryption process, MD5
etc.

What do you guys use for creating the drawings?

Thanks.

Saqib Ali
---------
http://www.xml-dev.com

Maybe try Dia, I'm haven't used it that much and I'm not sure if it has the 
neccessary symbols but its open-source and its designed to provide the 
functionality of visio....
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/

I use Dia for most diagrams I create.

>From: SAQIB ####@####.####
>To: ####@####.####
>Subject: what to use for drawings
>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 06:39:06 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello,
>
>I working on updating an HOWTO, and I need to draw something related to
>PKI. I have Visio and it is appropriate template for this particular need.
>
>I was wondering if there is a opensource drawing application, which has
>PKI related symbols like Public Key, Privte Key , encryption process, MD5
>etc.
>
>What do you guys use for creating the drawings?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Saqib Ali
>---------
>http://www.xml-dev.com
>
>______________________
>http://lists.tldp.org/
>

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El dom, 14-09-2003 a las 15:39, SAQIB escribió:

> What do you guys use for creating the drawings?

In the past, xfig, now, sodipodi. Other tools could be sketch and...
tgif?

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Maybe try Dia, I'm haven't used it that much and I'm not sure if it has the 
neccessary symbols but its open-source and its designed to provide the 
functionality of visio....
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/

I use Dia for most diagrams I create.

>From: SAQIB ####@####.####
>To: ####@####.####
>Subject: what to use for drawings
>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 06:39:06 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello,
>
>I working on updating an HOWTO, and I need to draw something related to
>PKI. I have Visio and it is appropriate template for this particular need.
>
>I was wondering if there is a opensource drawing application, which has
>PKI related symbols like Public Key, Privte Key , encryption process, MD5
>etc.
>
>What do you guys use for creating the drawings?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Saqib Ali
>---------
>http://www.xml-dev.com
>
>______________________
>http://lists.tldp.org/
>

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Hello,

I working on updating an HOWTO, and I need to draw something related to
PKI. I have Visio and it is appropriate template for this particular need.

I was wondering if there is a opensource drawing application, which has
PKI related symbols like Public Key, Privte Key , encryption process, MD5
etc.

What do you guys use for creating the drawings?

Thanks.

Saqib Ali
---------
http://www.xml-dev.com

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:39:06PM +0800, SAQIB wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I working on updating an HOWTO, and I need to draw something related to
> PKI. I have Visio and it is appropriate template for this particular need.
> 
> I was wondering if there is a opensource drawing application, which has
> PKI related symbols like Public Key, Privte Key , encryption process, MD5
> etc.
> 
> What do you guys use for creating the drawings?

Since there are people who read the doc in plain text, I use ascii art.
This also doesn't take up much bandwidth.  It displays also in HTML
since it is enclosed in <pre> tags.

			David Lawyer

David Lawyer wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:39:06PM +0800, SAQIB wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I working on updating an HOWTO, and I need to draw something related to
>>PKI. I have Visio and it is appropriate template for this particular need.
>>
>>I was wondering if there is a opensource drawing application, which has
>>PKI related symbols like Public Key, Privte Key , encryption process, MD5
>>etc.


I used tgif in the past and was satisfied. It is under continuous
development and I understand it now has some form of support for
templates.

>>What do you guys use for creating the drawings?
>>
> 
> Since there are people who read the doc in plain text, I use ascii art.
> This also doesn't take up much bandwidth.  It displays also in HTML
> since it is enclosed in <pre> tags.


I second this.

As mentioned elsewhere you can use AA-lib and you can tune the
result quite a bit. There is an ascii art newsgroup with a FAQ
that is informative. If your drawing is complex you could try
asking for help there in refining your drawing.

Regards,
    Stein Gjoen