Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 101900
[RFE] include support for *.vsd (ms-visio) or better exchange via *.dxf
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:56:43 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Description of problem: could you include support for the *.vsd (ms-viso) format and optimize the exchange via *.dxf ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dia-0.91-2.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get an email-attachment *.vsd 2. save it 3. try it to open with dia, xfig, kivio, gimp, ... 4. install visio and save it as *.dxf for yourself because the windows-user do not know how to do this really great act 5. save it as *.jpg, *.ps Actual Results: no chance as *.vsd, *.dxf as *.jpg and probably other formats you can open it with gimp, nautilus, ... ps2pdf works with *.ps Expected Results: dia should handle the ms-visio *.vsd, *.dxf because the average windows-user has lost the ability to do a simple "save as" i hope that this will not be the same with an average linux-user in the near future. Additional info:
The visio format is proprietary and secret, so we can't implement it. Furthermore, this is very much not a packaging bug. If you want an actual developer of dia to read this you should file a bug with the developers of dia at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/