For some time now, I’ve been playing around with the Dia diagramming tool http://live.gnome.org/Dia. One thing that has annoyed me is the lack of stylish shapes such as those available in the M$ Visio digramming tool. As an attempt to solve this, I’ve been spending some days trying to understand the Dia XML files that encapsulates both the sheets and shapes.
Just to make thing clear, a sheet is by definition a collection of shapes. If I call a sheet for “Computer stuff”, then that particular sheet will contain shapes that is within the scope of “Computer stuff”.
I have currently made available some sheet for download. However, considere these sheets as ‘very’ beta, as I’ve only created very simple shapes that supports 9 different connection points, and that’s it.
You can download them as an tar.gz or ZIP file here: http://asbjorn.fellinghaug.com/filer/Dia_shapes.tar.gz and http://asbjorn.fellinghaug.com/filer/Dia_shapes.zip.
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