On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Peter Moulder wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:51:14PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Anyone know if there are any converters from Visio to something that could be loaded into Inkscape?
See http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html#VisioFiles
If you have access to a copy of visio, then I believe it can export as SVG. Certainly you could print to a postscript file and import that.
Yes, Visio 2003 can read and write SVG files (though Visio 2002 didn't have this ability.)
Btw, I'd be interested in seeing the SVG it produces. I believe it writes not just static shapes, but includes other stuff that may allow recovering some semantics (such as what SVG objects are part of what nodes, or perhaps information about connectors).
I'm not sure about this but I can check and talk to you about it offline.
Visio does allow saving in it's own native XML (.vdx) format, and this does include all semantic information present in the binary files. This is the format required by some of the convertors or other diagram products for their "Visio compatibility" feature.
Here are some references on the vdx format if anyone's interested http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devref/html... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devref/html...
Cheers, Michael