UML14 — UML 2.0 serious layout problems with activity diagrams

In UML 1.x you can draw several outgoing transitions from an action state
with guard conditions. That's semantically equivalent to a decision.
The semantic changes in UML 2.0. Several outgoing edges from an action node
are semantically equivalent to a fork. The new semantic is absolutely ok,
but I have problems with the notation.

Especially in business process modelling it is common that a decision
follows each action. Now I have to draw a decision node after each action
node. That blows up the diagrams and makes them hard to read. With UML 2 I
need two pages for a diagram that fits on half a page with UML 1.x.

Is it possible to use a notational shortcut to keep the diagrams small and
readable?
I heard from several people that they think about workarounds for that problem.
But I think that's the wrong way.

Any solutions?

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