Importing Visio .vsd into Linux program?

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/7/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
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> On 3/7/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
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> > 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
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> Both of you should agree on a common tool.  Is Dia available on windows?
> I think it might be?
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> 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).
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> Ah, so it's a customer dictating Visio.
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> I'd bite the bullet and get Visio.  On wine, win4lin, vmware, qemu or a PC
> running Windows.
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> Usually CAD data doesn't translate to other formats well.  The native
> format usually has something that doesn't translate that well.  One vendor,
> CADkey, used the IGES (?) standard as its native format to try to get around
> some of this.  I think QCad uses DXF in its case.



Visio 2003 can save as AutoCAD dwg and dxf.  Maybe Qcad can work.  I don't
know if it's FOSS but it is free-to-download for Linuxen.
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