Dia
Dia is a program for creating diagrams of all kinds. The current version can do UML class diagrams, Entity-Relationship modeling, network diagrams, and much more. The engine is very flexible and dynamically loads diagram-types from disk. It stores diagrams in an XML format, but can read and write a number of different formats.
| Tags | Desktop Environment GNOME multimedia Graphics Editors Vector-Based |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 01 Jun 2009 09:55
Changes: An integrated UI is available with "dia --integrated". The Cairo renderer has been improved, including anti-aliasing and printing. A Find and Replace feature was added. Text editing mode was improved. A custom lines plug-in was added. Shapes can have sub-shapes and default sizes. Start-up time and memory usage were reduced through delayed shape loading. Rotated text is supported. The DXF plug-in was improved. Dia supports EMF on Linux. Database table shapes were added. Grouped objects property handling was improved. Arrow bounding box calculations were improved. The "UML - Class" dialog fits on 800x600 screens. SWIG/C++ bindings were added.
- 04 Dec 2008 21:38
Changes: Text-line rendering in SVG export. Keyboard shortcuts for tools now use shift-alt. Improvement in autogaps for some objects. The .desktop file now has the current version. A change in zoom levels in menus. A check that windows are within bounds before opening. Various compilation-time improvements. UML class improvements in comment and wrapped underlined names. Many bugfixes.
- 25 Aug 2004 08:45
Changes: New additions include highlighting when connecting objects, connectability between layers, hexagonal grids, several new shape sets (RDP, KAOS, I*, Jackson, ChemEng), two new renderers (WMF for non-Windows and Cairo), rounded corners on polylines, persistence of a number of settings, and a new arrow head. The modification status was improved to use unod. UML objects were improved with text wrapping and label positioning. A host of random persistence systems were combined into one. Fixes were made for memory leaks, a shape compatibility bug, dialog closing problems, and many smaller bugs.
- 04 May 2004 12:52
Changes: Text-rendering is faster due to a Pango layout cache. The Win32 version now also uses Freetype2 rendering, allowing more unified appearance and antialiasing. Arrow head size selection now keeps aspect ratio by default. A navigation window has been added to the lower-right corner. UML objects can now have color. Dia can now convert objects without requiring X. Pre-edit text input is much improved. Shapes can now have extra properties, shown only in the dialog. There are new arrows, sheets, XSLT filters, and more. Many bugs and leaks are fixed, and there are other minor improvements.
- 17 Mar 2003 09:54
Changes: GTK 2.0 is now used. FreeType or Windows native fonts are now used instead of X font services, improving display/print similarity. Some usability improvements were made. More objects handle default settings (double-clicking the icon). The renderer backends were redone, so the process of making a renderer is much easier, yet more powerful. Better arrows that don't overshoot lines and an autosave feature was added. More exporters were added (XSLT, JPEG, PNG). Python scripting was improved. Comments may now be attached to UML classes. Many new shapes were added, including over 200 Cisco shapes. Support for animated objects was added. Many, many bugs were fixed.
- All comments
Recent commentsThanks for not restricting this.
Just wanted to say thanks for making such a useful
tool and not restricting it to KDE /GNOME.
How to Set a Scale (e. g. 1:50)?
Hi,
I’m new to Dia.
It looks very good. Congratulations to the developers!
I’d like to draw up a building plan and haven’t found a way to set the scale of the canvas (e. g. 1:50).
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Cheers,
Tobias
Latex labels in dia
I love dia, but I have to switch to some other editors such as ipe and xfig when I need good looking latex-style labels on my diagrams. Dia would be golden if it had the same option.
DIA for Windows
Hi All!
Dia is an excellent tool to create diagrams. I had some trouble first to put these diagrams into my Word (Office XP) documents, but when you install Adobe's SVG viewer plugin and export your diagrams to the SVG format, you get excellent scalable diagrams!
At the moment of writing:
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html
PS. For Java UML Diagramming I prefer Jude! Go check it out!
Re: Very useful
> This is a really cool application.
>
> Of course, it is not as powerful as
> Visio (Scriping, Thousands of Icons),
> but the basic functionality works.
>
> If you're an serious programmer, this
> is, what you waited for.
Only got about 600 icons, most of which are Cisco
items. But we could start taking icons from other
places, i.e. XFig. And scripting we have, though only
Python at the moment, and not too well integrated.
-Lars