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

On 01/21/2012 05:20 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 13/01/12 22:42, NoOp wrote:
...
> > 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.

Wow... I wish that I hadn't shredded all of my old Windows CD's &
licences awhile back - I would have gladly sent you my original Visio
(pre-Microsoft) CD w/updates, files, and license.

> 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.

Fully agree. That is why I thought it better to wait until you folks
(very nice work BTW) get the existing version/conversion settled first.

> 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.

Again, I wish that I still had my original CD & license. I do have
working, legal, copies of the installed program in two virtual machines
running WinXP, but I doubt that would be of much use? I'll see if I can
find one elsewhere.

> For the time being, though, only MS Visio 2000 and later is supported.
>
> Cheers
>
> Fridrich

And thanks again to you, and Eilidh McAdam, for the great work!

Gary Lee




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