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Another way, since Visio was seen as too expensive and Frame compatability
was required, is to use Orgchart which is cheap and very basic. It can be
used by Frame if you cut and then paste. Also, the flowcharting is very
basic, but may just meet your needs.
If you are really desperate and have a screen capture program and Word6/97,
do it in Word, capture the image and then use it in Frame.
I still use this method (coming from a Word background) when in a hurry and
when I want the Word97 graphic features. They are much quicker to use than
the Frame graphic tools and the finished product is better I find.
Regards,
Bruce Ashley
OZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Christie [SMTP:Michael_C2 -at- VERIFONE -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 4:41 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: flowcharting sw
I agree. Visio is really the tool for the job, and will probably lessen
your
frustration level vs. trying to use another tool not suited for the task.
Import into Frame is a problem. We use .gif files for graphics because we
export everything to HTML. The version of Visio I have doesn't export to
.gif at all, and I understand the current version doesn't do it well. What
I've done is to turn off all the gridlines and markers and take a
screenshot
of the flow chart as a .gif. Kludgy, yes, but the graphics look nice both
in
print and in HTML.
My $0.02.
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> Chris, I highly recommend Visio since it's easy to use and quite
powerful.
> It may be overkill in your situation, but it will work well and you can
> use
> it for other kinds of illustrations as well should the need arise.
>
<snip>
> My one caveat is that FrameMaker doesn't recognize Visio documents when I
> try to import them. My workaround is to save the Visio document as a
> bitmap
> (using default settings) and import the bitmap into Frame.
>
>
