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<DIV><SPAN class=945213108-18102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are very many
different software solutions for creating flowcharts. Some are commercial, some
are free. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=945213108-18102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>The discussion of tools have been up here before, but I haven't really
bothered as I have not used workflow diagrams in
documentation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=945213108-18102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=945213108-18102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now I have a need to
document some design and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=945213108-18102005><FONT
face=Arial size=2>I found a nice free tool called yEd. It is a graph
editor implemented in Java. You can use your own pictures for the nodes, and
another very neat feature is export capability for WMF-files. Thus scalable
pictures can be created and used in your favourite word processor (or in the
word processor you are forced to use). If anyone wants to have a go it is
available at <A
href="http://www.yworks.com/">http://www.yworks.com/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=945213108-18102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have also used
GIMP (<A href="http://www.gimp.org/">http://www.gimp.org/</A>) to create PNG
files with transparent background for each of the different symbols, so now I
can design and document using SAP's own symbols, see the attached example
:-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil KTJ IT
BKS</FONT></DIV>
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