On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Alan G Isaac wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:30:47 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) > From: Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: dia-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Visio format conversion > > I assume this is well known, > but just in case, I've sent it... > http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/visio/ > http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/8658.html > > Cheers, > Alan Isaac
This is interesting but I am fairly sure it not really as good as it sounds. from the second link: "The file converter relies on the OLE technology, and can work either on a local machine which has Visio installed" SmartDraw, does something similar. I have considered suffering some VisualBasic and trying to hack something similar for Dia. I am also reliably informed that Visio 2003 exports to SVG which I intend to take a closer look at in the near future. It would seem as if they have a copy of Visio on their server doing the work and I would be highly surprised if providing this service is not in breech of Visio licensing. I would be interested to know what sort of results these systems produce, and the level of dataloss if any in complex UML diagrams. I am highly interested in Ian Redferns work and I hope to provide him many many sample visio documents and if he has time to encourage him to continue his efforts (and maybe even VXD) http://public.logica.com/~redferni/dia/ Lars previously suggested that he had a copy of the VXD schema, I hope he will provide relevant links or put a copy some where (although I suspect I could dig up the information somewhere on MSN). Always a good idea to archive this kind of documentation before Microsoft changes their mind and updates it. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ 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
