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

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<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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