[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Visio support

On 08/03/2011 12:56 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> On 2011-08-03, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
>
> > I use to deal with a lot of Visio documents.  DIA may still be able to
> > load these files, but I had problems installing my copy of Visio onto
> > Win-Vista so I had to drop using it.  Now that Ubuntu is my default
> > system, I needed to find alternatives to Visio as well.
> >
> > To be frank, MS Publisher files are not supported in most third-party
> > software, and Visio files use to work with DIA diagram editor. It
> > would be great if some really ambitious person would make a
> > filter/extension that would give LibreOffice the ability to read those
> > files and maybe even edit them.
> Eilidh McAdam is doing some work on Visio import as a Google Summer of
> Code project:
> http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=813
>
> There is code in a git repository, at
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/libvisio/
>
> And for the ones who just want to see nice pictures, Fridrich Strba's
> weblog has some posts with screenshots:
> http://fridrich.blogspot.com/
Well, I did not know that LibreOffice had any Visio support at all.  I 
do not know about installing Ubuntu/LibreOffice stuff from someone 
else's repository.  My system gives me security warnings when I add 
repositories that are not in the "approved list".

Well, I did not know "Google Summer of Code" was working with 
LibreOffice either.

Learn something new every day.



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