draw a pretty timeline graphic w/ text?

[Jason Shaw]

Another option is dia http://live.gnome.org/Dia as it's purpose is to create
diagrams and to be a lightweight Visio replacement.  I've been using it to
draw network diagrams and it works fine for that.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Julian C. Dunn <lists-JN5fZfbfKAtWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 11/04/2010 06:55 AM, Matt Price wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to do something that seems really simple to me but i still
> > don't know how to do.  I want to draw a timeline that represents the
> > stages of a research project (inception, research, presentation,
> > writing, submission, publication...)  and I would like it to look
> > something like this:
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > \                             \
> >  \                             \
> >   inception                research
> >
> > only I want it to be pretty, say with little circular nodes connecting
> > the digonal lines to the main horizontl lines, and with the text aligned
> > diagonally along the lines.  Shouldn't this be easy to do, either in
> > Openoffice (ick) or with another tool?  in fact shouldn't i be able to
> > generate this automatically from a set of terms, say, in a spreadsheet?
>
> Matt,
>
> What about GraphViz? Note: I haven't used it, but I know it can do this
> sort of thing programatically.
>
> http://www.graphviz.org/
>
> - Julian
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