On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 07:15 +0900, Glen Low wrote: > Lars, All > > On 24/03/2009, at 1:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > >> Hi All > >> > >> I'm the author of the iPhone graph sketching program http:// > >> instaviz.com and sometime contributor to AT&T Graphviz project (CPL- > >> licensed). > >> > >> I'm currently working on a Visio VDX exporter for Graphviz. I was > >> curious about whether I could generalize it to output DIA as well, > >> since the DIA support in Graphviz is rather old. Do you have any > >> documentation about the Dia XML format, I don't see anything that's > >> easily Googleable? > > > > Given that I never got anything usable out of graphviz' Dia output, I > > think that'd be great -- dunno how easily all the bezier splines will > > convert, but you may have better ideas than me there. > > > > The dtd for the diagram files can be found in the doc directory of the > > distribution. However, it doesn't say much about the objects in > > question, and as far as I remember there is no further description. > > That > > said, it's pretty easy to figure out from a few .dia files. > > > Could you email me a couple of representative .dia files? Preferably > with a .pdf or .svg to compare against so I know what I'm looking at.
Sending a few in a separate mail. > Does Dia not have bezier splines? It does, but they use a different model than graphviz does, and my experience has been that the conversion is suboptimal. > I'll have to see if I can get Dia running on my PS3 Fedora Core box. > Otherwise I have nothing I can quickly test it on. If it isn't already installed, it should not be a problem to do so, whether from RPMs or from source. _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
