Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Visio] Re: So what's with LibO 3.5?

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 <fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch> wrote:

From: Fridrich Strba <fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Visio] Re: So what's with LibO 3.5?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: "NoOp" <glgxg@sbcglobal.net>
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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