Hello, I would like to inform you about my projects that I hoped could be interesting for Dia developers. Sorry if I mailed to the wrong list. I made some research of MS Visio binary file formats (VSD/VSS). The results are available in the docs and src of vsdump (http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsdump), this project was sponsored by ALT Linux (http://www.altlinux.ru). In about 2 weeks I'm going to release a pygtk/cairo-based VSD viewer which will be able to save as SVG. To support VSD and VSS files one need to support WMF and EMF, because - Visio version 6 (Visio2k and 2k2) stores images wrapped into those formats - many 'commercial' stencils are made of WMF and/or EMF files (eg Cisco Systems, EMC, Nortel, IBM, Xerox, Avaya to name some). I found that support of WMF is poor over FOSS projects and EMF is supported only (?) by OO.org. So far I made a player for WMF and EMF files (EMF+ is not supported yet). It's available here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymfvu. As I can see Dia have no support for WMF or EMF. So if you are interested to support VSD/VSS import, it would be right to implement WMF/EMF support for Dia first. [I'm not a dia-list subscriber, CC if your reply is supposed to be read by me]
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