If you really need to read Visio, the free package of Dia does a good
job, or so I have been told. I has Visio on one system till MS disabled
it when they bought it out and now wanted me to pay them for the new
version. After that, I could never get it running on a system with MSO
2002/2003 or newer. I did a large network project using Visio before
MSO killed me. Now I would use Dia if I need a Visio type of system
with all its libraries.
SO
I wonder if the people at Dia would have any input filters that would be
useful to LO to support the older Visio files?
On 01/21/2012 03:28 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I agreed with NoOp once he had explained the situation. Being able to
read a 12year old undocumented and proprietary format is impressive enough.
There are a lot of other interesting challenges out there :)
Regards from
Tom :)
--- On Sat, 21/1/12, Fridrich Strba<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Fridrich Strba<[email protected]>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Visio] Re: So what's with LibO 3.5?
To: [email protected]
Cc: "NoOp"<[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, 21 January, 2012, 13:20
Hello,
On 13/01/12 22:42, NoOp wrote:
On 01/13/2012 02:31 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :) That might be very interesting to the devs and now would be
excellent timing to let them know you have some files from that era.
Regards from Tom :)
They've contributed quite a lot of work:
<http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/the-ultimate-quest-of-bringing-visio-support-to-libreoffice>
and at this point introducing:
/Samples/Network Diagram$ file "Basic Wide Area Network Diagram.VSD"
Basic Wide Area Network Diagram.VSD: CDF V2 Document, Little Endian, Os:
Windows, Version 4.0, Code page: 1252, Author: Copyright \022 1997 Visio
Corporation. All rights reserved., Keywords: v5.0, Title: Basic Wide
Area Network Diagram
into the picture probably wouldn't be appreciated. I think it better to
let them get the current code settled before asking for support of 15
year old Visio Technical v5.0 code/diagram-format.
I would not mind to try to support Visio 5.0 file-format. Nevertheless a
collection of documents is not enough for us to understand how the file-format
is working.
You know that there is no documentation whatsoever for the binary file-formats,
so what we need is an application that is generating those documents so that we
can experiment with it.
So, the deal is: Get to me a pre-Microsoft Visio that generates version 5
diagrams natively and I will do my best to add that file-format to libvisio.
For the time being, though, only MS Visio 2000 and later is supported.
Cheers
Fridrich
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