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

[Harry George <hgg9140 seanet com>]

Just saw an announcement today that MS is providing a spec for XML
rendition of VISIO 2002.  The document was an .exe, apparently a
self-extracting .doc, so I didn't actually look at it.  That could be
a good approach to the problem.  The blurb said it covered everything
the native .vsd's do (i.e., not crippled).

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:05:03 +0100
> To: dia-list gnome org
> From: Philip Rhoades <philr mail austasia net>
> Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> Sender: dia-list-admin gnome org
> Subject: Any more progress with Visio <=> Dia  interchange methods?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
>
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