Re: Visio format conversion

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On 19 Jun 2003, Ian Redfern wrote:

> Date: 19 Jun 2003 17:40:06 +0100
> From: Ian Redfern <Ian Redfern LogicaCMG com>
> Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> To: dia-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Visio format conversion
>
> Note that these don't actually read Visio files themselves - they use
> OLE to drive a locally-installed copy of Visio to open the files and
> then export them - I guess as WMF.

EMF is highly likely too, but there are whole variety of potential
migration paths.

> I'm sure Dia could do something similar on MS Windows for those who
> already own Visio, but it doesn't much help those of us that don't. For

libwmf support would be great
and apparently there is also a libemf floating around somewhere (oh, here
it is http://libemf.sourceforge.net/ )

I am going to add a note about EMF to the bug i already file about WMF.

As for reverse engineering VSD, Ian you have my utmost respect, you are a
braver man than I.
If you haven't already you should say hello to Caolan McNamara, who
reverse engineered the Microsoft Word format and now works on
OpenOffice.org for Sun Microsystems.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/