> Interoperability is an important part of being 'as good as possible'. > It's > not like we don't want import/export for Visio files just because > Microsoft > makes money off Visio. Yes, because we want to get Microsofts customers.
> Having more import/export options improves > our > program, not theirs. The real question is whether anybody cares > enough > about the Kivio files to make import/export plugins. I certainly > don't. And very few other people do either. > > [...] > > I have looking into the pdf2html lib if you want to have a pdf > import, > > and have figured out most of the drawing code. > > That sounds interesting! Exporting PDF would be wonderful, since > neither > Macs nor PCs understand PS by default. Do you think you're learning > enough > PDF to be able to do that? Not yet, just reading them. > > How are you considering importing PDF? As something similar to > images, or > decomposed into native Dia lines, text etc? Yes, I have been working on the XML extraction of data from PDF to extract source code from the ECMA specs for the C# lang from microsoft. The XPDF tool builds an C++ class object model of the document and interprets that to display it, I was thinking about translating that into some form of image inside of dia. This is a bit in the future, but maybe someone thinks its a good idea. > > > The rational rose can be done via XMI. > > > > Visio is another story, and the result should be free. > > Way other story, and way old. Though it should be possible with XSLT > now, > for Visio2002 files. The spec is out there. Yup. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
