Re: Dia XML format, Graphviz, Instaviz etc.

[Glen Low <glen low pixelglow com>]

Lars, All

On 24/03/2009, at 1:06 AM, dia-list-request gnome org wrote:

> > Hi All
> >
> > I'm the author of the iPhone graph sketching program http://
> > instaviz.com and sometime contributor to AT&T Graphviz project (CPL-
> > licensed).
> >
> > I'm currently working on a Visio VDX exporter for Graphviz. I was
> > curious about whether I could generalize it to output DIA as well,
> > since the DIA support in Graphviz is rather old. Do you have any
> > documentation about the Dia XML format, I don't see anything that's
> > easily Googleable?
>
> Given that I never got anything usable out of graphviz' Dia output, I
> think that'd be great -- dunno how easily all the bezier splines will
> convert, but you may have better ideas than me there.
>
> The dtd for the diagram files can be found in the doc directory of the
> distribution.  However, it doesn't say much about the objects in
> question, and as far as I remember there is no further description.  
> That
> said, it's pretty easy to figure out from a few .dia files.


Could you email me a couple of representative .dia files? Preferably  
with a .pdf or .svg to compare against so I know what I'm looking at.

Does Dia not have bezier splines?

I'll have to see if I can get Dia running on my PS3 Fedora Core box.  
Otherwise I have nothing I can quickly test it on.




Cheers, Glen Low


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