Kivio

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Kivio
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Screenshot of Kivio 1.4.2
Developed by The Kivio Team
Latest release 1.6.3 / June 7, 2007 (2007-06-07); 369 days ago
OS Cross-platform
Genre Diagramming software
License GNU General Public License
Website www.koffice.org/kivio

In computing, Kivio is free diagramming software that is part of KOffice, an integrated office suite for KDE.

[edit] Description

Kivio is a flowcharting and diagramming application for the KOffice application suite, and has a user interface that is similar to Microsoft Visio. It is fully integrated into KOffice and can for example be embedded into KWord.

Features:

  • Scriptable stencils using Python.
  • Support for Dia stencils.
  • Plugin framework for adding more functionality.

[edit] External links

  • Kivio, KOffice info page.
  • Kivio: Powerful Flowchart Program for KDE, theKompany info page. theKompany sells extra stencils for Kivio, as well as a commercial cross-platform closed-source version (which also runs on Windows).
  • xfig2sml The xfig2sml project allows Dia stencils to be imported into Kivio. To get lots of extra stencils for Kivio, just download xfig-stencils.sml (actually, it's xfig-stencils-0.1.tar.bz2) from the "Files" tab on http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfig2sml, then import this tarball directly into Kivio using "File/Import Stencil Set".