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1. MAC VISIO ALTERNATIVE OPEN SOURCE EXPORT .VSD UPDATE
2. MAC VISIO ALTERNATIVE OPEN SOURCE EXPORT .VSD CODE

It’s expected that the next big update LibreOffice (3.7 or 4.0) will ship the new version of libvisio and provide support for Visio 2013 (and 2003) files, along with support for Corel DRAW and Microsoft Publisher. For a short guide on building libvisio from Git please refer to an earlier article on the subject (scroll to the end). You will also need libwpd, libwpg and writerperfect packages. It’s still recommended to run libvisio from Git. But once the final version is out (currently expected the coming winter), you will be able to open a Visio file and pick the page you need to import (since Inkscape doesn’t have the concept of pages yet). Upcoming Inkscape 0.49 will feature importing VSD files, VDX and VSDX should be added too.Įxisting unstable builds of Inkscape do not ship this feature yet.Calligra Suite 3.4+ ships with support for Visio files.As a result, two more projects benefitted from this LibreOffice’s project: The availability of an open library for reading Visio files was quite tempting. On top of that Fridrich added an API to query pages and build their previews in 3rd party software. It is used to create powerful visuals to help your team understand information and processes that drive better decisions in every area of your business. Lucidchart is one of the best online diagrams and visual solutions. Over the last year quite a few minor features sneaked in: support for text styles, text fields, line markers, flips and rotations, bitmap fills in SVG output, and OLE stencils. List of Best Alternatives to Microsoft Visio. It’s expected that the next version of libvisio will publicly claim the VSS support. The official v0.0.20 release has a bug with regards to XML-based stencils, but it’s already fixed in Git. When opened in LibreOffice or converted to ODG, the stencil file have each stencil object on a separate page.

MAC VISIO ALTERNATIVE OPEN SOURCE EXPORT .VSD CODE

The initial code has just landed to Git source code repository.Īnother new feature that’s not really advertised yet is support for Visio stencils in VSS files. Otherwise please file a bug report.įridrich also started working on support for VSD v4 and v5. In most cases opening VDX and VSDX files should just work. The importer supports pretty much all the features of the older file formats.

Most code was written by Fridrich in September and October, so that’s hot from the oven.

Two grand new features are support for newer Visio file formats: VDX (Visio 2003) and VSDX (Visio 2013). However this summer Fridrich returned to libvisio to add some new exciting features. And here’s some news: with the latest release of libvisio you can open VDX and VSDX files as well.Īfter an initial attack the activity in this project gradually faded, partially due to Fridrich Strba’s work on libraries for opening Corel DRAW and Microsoft Publisher files. It’s been a year since support for Visio documents in VSD file format entered LibreOffice.