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Ask HN: How do you create diagrams in documentation?
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#2Gliffy(www.gliffy.com) works great for me.
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#3Inkscape
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#4I use Dia: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia
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#5I had started with using MS Visio at my job.
Though I had absolutely no experience in making diagrams, Visio was quite easy to get started and become comfortable in quick time.
The downside of course is that it is not free.
I would also like to know open source alternatives to MS Visio. I can see that Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Libre Draw, but I haven't tried it yet.
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#6Yeah I quite like Gliffy. More often than not, we take photos of whiteboards and email them round the team.
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#7I had started with using MS Visio at my job. Though I had absolutely no experience in making diagrams, Visio was quite easy to get started and become comfortable in quick time. The downside of course is that it is not free. I would also like to know open source alternatives to MS Visio. I can see that Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Libre Draw, but I haven't tried it yet.
Have you tried UMlet? It's limited but great for nailing UML diagrams.
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#8LibreOffice Draw is reasonable if you are coming from Linux.
Otherwise there is GIMP too.
+1 to all the other open source solutions mentioned here.
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#9Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Sometimes Excel when diagram could be made by drawing borders around cells and resizing rows and columns as per need. This helps when unplanned non-linear horizontal and vertical scaling is needed while making the diagram.
The SmartArt concept they introduced was quite promising, though I find the current state of it lagging. I am sad that it never picked up.
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#10Balsamiq