[henshao]

This seems like the right thread to ask.

I love the idea of tools like these to be able to easily and programmatically draw diagrams, but eventually it gets thrown into a powerpoint, where then it is locked behind some tool and arcane DSL that only I know. So when my boss who doesn't care about the tools inevitable wants to move the arrow up an inch or make the box green instead of blue, I have to go back to do it. Meaning I give up on using these tools so I don't end up a fulltime diagram engineer.

Anyone know of a tool that is close to inkscape/graphviz, but has an "export back to powerpoint" feature?

[zelphirkalt]

If the boss wants to "move arrows up" then it is possible, that the boss should have been involved in the design process, or keep feedback for later to be worked in, but not in the middle of a presentation.

And please ... Don't do software modelling in powerpoints. It is quite painful to watch that happening. It lowers interest in contributing of people, who would have used a proper tool for such a job and would have been 3x faster that way.