Re: Any more progress with Visio <=> Dia interchange methods?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Philip Rhoades wrote:

> Lars,
>
> > > I read the archives about attempts to move files between Visio and Dia
> > > - have there been any more developments by anyone?
> >
> > No, but we've determined that the most feasible way is probably to use
> > OLE on a machine with Visio to convert.  Other programs do that.  If we
> > get that running, we could even set up a conversion server.  Don't know
> > of anybody working on it, though (does anyone have a copy of Visio
> > installed at all?)
>
> I have a (pre-MS) copy - I was trying to avoid re-installing it on my
> newly installed Win4Lin v3.0 (running on RH7.1) because I want to get
> rid of as much Windows crap as possible but if it will help the
> development process I am happy to of course.

It would help quite a lot if we could actually get that translation up.
Lots of people have been asking for it.

> I have never done anything with OLE though - it seems like that
> shouldn't be a problem if someone is willing to point me in the right
> direction.

Can't help you with OLE, for me it's just something that pops up
occasionally in network classes.  For importing/exporting Dia files, look
at the plug-ins (my xfig plug-in is apparently sufficiently clean that the
plug-in I learned from got re-written by it:)

Best of luck with this!

-Lars

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