Linux program to create a timeline diagram? [closed]

Solution 1:

The free GanttProject (Java) can make some nice looking timelines.

Solution 2:

If you want to save yourself all the programming work there is a website called Dipity.com that you can use create timelines with.

Or if you like to program and know a little XML and Javascript there is the SIMILE project from MIT has a neat Javascript browser based project called Timeline that allows you to use a simple XML format as input for displaying a timeline.

You said that you would "prefer to work in declarations of time periods/events rather than drawing them myself", and SIMILE Timeline seems like a good way to do that.

(You don't even have to draw it, just enter the data).

Both of these work on Linux/Windows/Mac whatever you want.

Solution 3:

Dia is a program to create diagrams on Linux, it's similar in practice to Visio.

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio,' though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.