[ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 15:55 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I was more interested in one that would convert vendor provided
> stencils.   Many of them provide stencils so you don't need to draw your
> own copy of their equipment in your diagrams.

	Probably not going to help much but there is progress on that front.
There's now vsdump, which is really a research tool set for dumping
visio formats:

	VSD/VSS Introduction
	http://www.gnome.ru/fileformats/visio_intro.html

	How to convert Visio stencils to something usefull.
	http://www.gnome.ru/fileformats/stencils.html

	Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:26 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?
> 
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Thu January 29 2009, Geoffrey wrote:
> >> Jeff Lightner wrote:
> >>> Do any of these tools import or convert Visio templates?
> >> Dia has an import plugin, although I've never used it.
> >>
> >> --
> > 
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/dia-list@lysator.liu.se/msg03255.html
> > We would add vsd import in an eyeblink except that the format is
> > proprietary just like most other Microsoft programs formats.  Anyone
> who
> > can figure out the format will be awarded the Dia Medal of Honor.
> 
> My bad, I didn't look at it closely enough:
> 
> "Visio XML Format import and export filter"
> 
> So I guess if you export your visio docs as xml, you should be able to 
> use this filter.

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