Where they miss out is in ShapeSheet smarts Most seem to have gotten connectors to stick to shapes in connected diagrams, and many have drag-and-drop from palettes of shapes. Know if Illustrator or Freehand have any kind of page scale settings.Ī lot of competing products and open source products mimic many of Visio's features. You can do scaled drawings in a scaled environment (ie: space plans, office plans, elevation diagrams of network rack systems, etc.) By setting, say 1" = 1' - 0", you can draw in real-world units, and don't need to convert to fit objects on a page.
It has a huge installed base, so you are working with the "standard" and have the best chance of being able to share diagrams with other users. Visio behaves very much like other MS Office apps, so the standardization is also a plus. I don't know if the illustration packages have the notion of glued connectors these days. This is great for flowcharts, org charts, network diagrams,Įtc. Visio has connectors which stay glued to shapes when they are moved. Visio's basic philosophy is that offices users don't want to draw, but instead should assemble diagrams from existing symbols. These apps also do fancy color-separation stuff when it is time to print, are very good with PostScript, etc. While I haven't used Illustrator or Freehand for a few versions, they are generally intended for graphic artists who are adept at creating illustrations from the ground up, drawing every single element they need and using artist's techniques to get the jobĭone.
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