Importing Visio .vsd into Linux program?

[Thomas Charron]

  Export as VDX and use dia:

http://www.redferni.uklinux.net/dia/vdx/

On 3/7/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> My fellow developer is using Windows and is using Visio as his ERD
> development tool. We're trying to find some way to share the document
> back-and-forth, hopefully with the ability to markup and edit. The
> native .VSD format is proprietary and it doesn't seem like other tools
> know how to use it. EPS and WMF/EWF work, but send over a structured
> diagram as a single block that's difficult to edit. SVG sounded like a
> great idea - an XML standard format, right? - but even after finding
> the SVG filter for OO.o [1] I found the Microsoft Visio export uses
> proprietary extensions[2] to the SVG format (where have we heard that
> before?) to handle icons and wrapped text, which are present in the
> original document. There seem to be another couple formats we could
> try, but before wearing thin the client's patience, I thought I'd ask
> here if anyone has found a successful way to share Visio documents in
> Linux/FOSS. (And telling the client to stop using the tool he prefers
> is not a practical option).
>
> Both OO.o Draw with the import filter installed and InkScape do not
> like the SVG diagram. Each can load it, but textboxes are page-wide in
> Draw and are blacked out in InkScape and Gnome Image Viewer.
>
> [1] http://www.ipd.uka.de/~hauma/svg-import/
> [2]
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_User_Experiences#Problems_importing_from_Visio_save
>
> or: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2v3b27
>
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> Ted Roche
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-- Thomas