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> > Paul Sutton wrote: > > > is it me or has the list gone quiet I'm having a problem in erasing Windows from my life. I run XP in Virtual Box for 3 or 4 apps that I have not yet found an open source solution for. The most important of these is a programme called Micrografx Flowcharter which I've been using since version 4 but my current one is V7 which dates from about 1996. I have used it for software flowcharts, manufacturing process flows, business process flows, organisation charts etc but my main use is for drawing family trees. Yes, I am a geek. Micrografx and susidiary Igrafx were bought by Corel in 1991 and its products have disappeared without trace, except for Windows Draw perhaps. I can't find a reliable way of translating the proprietary .flo files into an open format that can be edited. Plenty of ways to read them and print them but things get out of date. So, bite the bullet and redraw my charts in another app. I have tried the following: Scribus, Gimp, Xara, Inkscape, Robochart, 00 Draw (Which seems to be nearly identical to Impress), Dia (which I find dire and diabolical), Qcad, Kivio, Kflowchart, and some I can't remember. OO Draw was the probably the best for my purpose but there is one thing I can't get over in any of them. In Micrografx Flowcharter you can set your chart to be as large as you like and the programme will automatically print out in as many A4 sheets as required so you can tape them together. I can sort of do that in some other apps by setting the base sheet as, say, A2 and that will print out in several sheets. But that is not the same as seeing where the sheet breaks are by faint dotted lines so that you can plan the layout to suit. Not quite a coconut yet so Windows gets another reprieve... for now. And now I'm off to fight the garden. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html