[pstricks] Creating ER Diagrams

[Herbert Voss]

Rich Shepard schrieb:
>    I need to prepare several ER (Entity Relationship) diagrams of database
> schema(e?). I tried Dia, but didn't like the widget set nor the way the
> application works. Went back to Xfig (which I've used extensively) which has
> a different ER widget set. Filled a page, but without one table because
> there was no room. And, the relationship diamonds take a lot of space.
> 
>    There are other ER symbol sets, for example, the information engineering
> one with multitailed lines and circles. I think this would allow me to put
> more information on a page.
> 
>    Is PSTricks a good tool for this? Will it lay out the widgets for optimal
> fit for me?

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-dbicons/
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-dbicons/pst-dbicons.pdf

Herbert