What's a good, open source alternative to Visio? I'm looking to do some flowcharts, absolutely hate working with the draw tools in Word, and need something fairly simple, easy to use. Prefer not to use web based, don't like trusting data to third parties.
posted by Zinger on Dec 21, 2009 - 10 answers

Displaying different data for different shapes in Visio 2003? [more inside]
posted by curagea on Apr 3, 2009 - 0 answers

visio noob question: connected two shapes from center of one to center of other. Moved one shape. Connector line didnt stick to the same point on the second shape, it moved around and connected to a different point on it. How make it so that connector line stays in the same location no matter where I move the second shape? [more inside]
posted by jak68 on Jul 9, 2008 - 3 answers

Isometric Charts in Visio: Though I work on a Mac, I need to produce IA documents and Wireframes that clients can open and dink with in Visio. I'd like to produce an isometric network diagram similar to that seen here, perhaps using the templates and shapes available here, but I can't seem to make it all work. Advice?
posted by aladfar on Feb 15, 2008 - 4 answers

VisioFilter: Custom shape with two text-editable regions? [more inside]
posted by gsh on Jan 31, 2008 - 5 answers

I have a large, multi-step logical diagram that needs to become a slick presentation. How do I get there? [more inside]
posted by datacenter refugee on Jul 4, 2007 - 7 answers

Is there any easy way in, say, Visio or another MS Office product, to make an attractive chart in a compact tree view format? I am trying to make an Organization Chart that looks more similar to a Windows Explorer folder directory than a traditional Org Chart. [more inside]
posted by catfood on Feb 22, 2007 - 6 answers

How do I quickly reorder (multiple) pages in a very long visio document? [more inside]
posted by mdiskin on Nov 1, 2006 - 2 answers

Are there any reasonable Mac (OS X) based applications (with not so steep learning curves) that can more or less approximate what one can do with Visio? [more inside]
posted by psmealey on May 2, 2005 - 11 answers

Visio weirdness: if I open any Visio document on a network drive the program opens several identical copies of that document (15 to be precise). This doesn't happen if I open a document on my desktop's HDD. What's going on? [more inside]
posted by PinkStainlessTail on Mar 4, 2005 - 0 answers

Take the story Rumplestiltskin and the despair of the Millers Daughter in that room with the spinning wheel and the straw and the looming demand for gold, for the Millers Daughters take me for the Spinning Wheel take Visio 2002, for the straw take a bundle of very rough sketches of a website and the possible routes through it with with information gathering, registration, logins, detailed reporting etc as well as a technical spec, /straw, for gold read a beautiful Visio 2002 presentation pulling into focus all the disparate strands for showing to client, for Rumplestiltskin read ask.metafilter. You can have my first born if you can point me to good vision samples (actual files). I just installed this morning and have not used it before and really need a boost. I will put my email on my profile for a whileen if anyone has any goodies for me.
posted by kenaman on Sep 24, 2004 - 8 answers

VisioFilter. Okay. This should be terribly simple. I am quite sure there is an add-on or a macro that I can throw into Visio that will allow me to right-click on a page/tab in a Visio document and duplicate that page and the contents therein. Why this isn't a native application function, I have no idea. Any suggestions or sources?
posted by grabbingsand on Sep 13, 2004 - 5 answers

Reading a visio file on OS X: Can it be done? [mi] [more inside]
posted by b1tr0t on Sep 6, 2004 - 7 answers