General ⇒ Using latex for drawing flowcharts

[mozkaynak]

Hello I would like to use latex to draw flowcharts.
is there anyone has experience in drawing flowcharts by using latex?
by doing a small research I found PGF/TikZ to be most appropriate package for this purpose.
Any comments on that?

What is the best editor for the purpose of drawing flowcharts in latex?

I desperately need support on this issue, so any help will be highly appreciated.

thanks....

PS: I use Ubuntu as operating system.

[countbela666]

Hello,

another possibility would be using PSTricks. Here a link to a simple flowchart example using psmatrix: http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=p ... #flowchart.

Regards
Marcel

[darckhart]

Sorry to revive this, but I checked out that link and am having difficulty compiling the flowchart tex code provided. As is, the flowchart.tex file will not compile correctly, giving me errors such as

Code: Select all

Undefined control sequence.
(recently read) \c@lor@to@ps

I also tried loading additional packages, such as pstricks-add and xkeyval, but that did not work either.

I have the basic TeXLive 2007, ghostscript 8.57, gsview 4.8, and adobe acrobat 6 installed on winxp. Thanks.

[gmedina]

pstricks uses some commands not supported by pdflatex. The error you mention is similar to those obtained using pdflatex directly on a .tex document using pstricks. So you have to process your .tex document with latex and then use dvitops and finally (if your goal is a .pdf document) use pstopdf.

[nunolf]

Hi

How about ConTeX? It has a online tool to produce fancy workflows.
I also suggest the DIA program (Lin and Win). It has libraries with pre-built blocks for many kinds of flowcharts. Save as eps, then epstopdf and you are done.
Cheers,
Nuno

[nunolf]

Forgot ConTeX links. Check it out:

1- Check here to get a general idea:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Flow_Charts

2- first produce the code for a certain flowchart here:
http://www.im.ps.pl/context/?en

3- then, use the online compiler (paste the previous code into here).
http://live.contextgarden.net/

A source example goes in attach.