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When comparing Dia vs Pencil Project, the Slant community recommends Pencil Project for most people. In the question“What are the best flowchart / diagram softwares?” Pencil Project is ranked 9th while Dia is ranked 13th.
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Pros
Pro Tons of icon sets
Has flowcharts, uml, chemical engineering, electronics, and dozens of other complete sets, built in.
Pro Free and open source
Pro Custom gzipped XML format
Pro Inter-page linking
Pro Pencil Project as a Firefox extension
Pro Export to SVG and PDF
Pro GUI prototyping
Can be used for GUI (Graphical User Interface) prototyping.
Cons
Con Unmaintained
Dia has not been updated since 2009. It's already a very complete piece of software, but still sad.
Con UX is a joke
UX is not good enough. For example, to edit element text you must double-click it, then click text box, and then you can start typing text.
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