Diagram drawing program for Mac?

8 Responses to Diagram drawing program for Mac?

1. Ilkka says:

   January 15, 2009 at 12:03 pm

   Hurray! I got dia working, and it actually seems to work pretty well. I used MacPorts to install it (“sudo port install dia”), and after three iterations of that, I had a working application! Before that, I had to resolve few cryptic error messages (some broken dependencies), and wonder how on earth the installation failed because of memory allocation problems (that is, 4 GB of RAM wasn’t enough):

   tclsh(89785,0x8025d720) malloc: *** mmap(size=65536) failed (error code=12)
   *** error: can’t allocate region
   *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

   So, it really was an open-source experience once again, but at least I got what I wanted
2. Andrés says:

   January 16, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   Hi Ilkka,

   If you want to work with latex, i’ll recommend you something hardcore:
   IPE: http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe/

   I am using it at the moment to produce some diagrams, and they look good. It took some time to get used to its special user interaction “features”, but once I did it was quite fast. Its resulting pdf are beatifully scaled in my latex documents

   IPE for mac: http://naranja.umh.es/~atg/software-qt4.html
   Article on IPE: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-2/hlavacek/hlavacek.pdf

   Cheers,
3. Ilkka says:

   January 16, 2009 at 1:36 pm

   Thanks, Andrés!

   The IPE looks very nice, and espcially the controls feels very handy for me. I have used to produce the diagrams to Latex document with dia, but this seems to be even more flexible for that.
4. Matti says:

   January 18, 2009 at 9:29 pm

   Well, it’s not exactly free, but OmniGraffle is a GREAT program. I did install DiA too, but when I understood the power of good-looking presentations, I ended choosing OmniGraffle. Simple & super fast, and produces good looking stuff.
5. Faiz says:

   February 23, 2009 at 4:11 pm

   Hi Ilka,

   How did you solve your problem for the port installation? I have been trying to overcome the port installation problem exactly like what you had (for teTeX) but still no success
6. Ilkka says:

   February 23, 2009 at 9:59 pm

   Hello Faiz, I think I got rid of that memory allocation problem just by trying the installation again, probably after a reboot. Then I did some internet search, here the error messages gave quite good pointers what to search for. I think the last point was to install the libXrandr. That instruction I found from some discussion forum.

   I dig the command line history a bit (I just learned that command history shows more than 500 last commands) and here is what I found (related to macports and dia installation):

   327 sudo port selfupdate
328 sudo port install dia
336 sudo port install dia
338 sudo port clean --work py25-hashlib
339 sudo port install xorg-libXrandr
340 sudo port install dia
7. Jon Watson says:

   October 20, 2009 at 10:40 am

   I’m actually getting a very different error on Snow Leopard. I’ve pasted the output below. This happens when the process gets to installing libemf.

   Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command ” cd “/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_libemf/work/libEMF-1.0.3″ && /usr/bin/make -j2 all ” returned error 2
   Command output: Making all in include
   Making all in libEMF
   make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
   make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.
   Making all in libemf
   if /bin/sh ../libtool –mode=compile /usr/bin/g++-4.2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../config -I../include -I/opt/local/include -O2 -arch x86_64 -D_REENTRANT -DPTHREADS -MT libemf.lo -MD -MP -MF “.deps/libemf.Tpo” -c -o libemf.lo libemf.cpp; \
   then mv -f “.deps/libemf.Tpo” “.deps/libemf.Plo”; else rm -f “.deps/libemf.Tpo”; exit 1; fi
   /usr/bin/g++-4.2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../config -I../include -I/opt/local/include -O2 -arch x86_64 -D_REENTRANT -DPTHREADS -MT libemf.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libemf.Tpo -c libemf.cpp -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/libemf.o
   In file included from ../include/libEMF/wine/windef.h:16,
   from ../include/libEMF/emf.h:27,
   from libemf.h:31,
   from libemf.cpp:23:
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winnt.h:45:3: error: #error Unknown CPU architecture!
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winnt.h:1051:2: error: #error You need to define a CONTEXT for your CPU
   In file included from ../include/libEMF/wine/windef.h:16,
   from ../include/libEMF/emf.h:27,
   from libemf.h:31,
   from libemf.cpp:23:
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winnt.h:1054: error: expected initializer before ‘*’ token
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winnt.h:2294: error: ‘PCONTEXT’ does not name a type
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winnt.h:2307: error: ‘PCONTEXT’ has not been declared
   In file included from ../include/libEMF/emf.h:28,
   from libemf.h:31,
   from libemf.cpp:23:
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winbase.h:120: error: ‘PCONTEXT’ does not name a type
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winbase.h:1243: error: ‘CONTEXT’ has not been declared
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winbase.h:1377: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘…’ before ‘*’ token
   ../include/libEMF/wine/winbase.h:1377: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘CONTEXT’ with no type
   make[1]: *** [libemf.lo] Error 1
   make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

   Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libemf popt
   Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
8. Nalin says:

   March 15, 2011 at 3:49 am

   Hi All,

   This is an old post, but just incase it is useful, I too had problems installing Dia using MacPorts. However, an easy download for Mac OS X Snow Leopard is available at http://dia-installer.de/download/macosx.html in native .dmg format. It was simple and works like charm.