Re: dia file exchange

[Lyle Bateman <batemanl cuug ab ca>]

Thanks for the reply - that's kinda what I was hoping for.  At this point, dumb
shapes on a page would be better than a bitmap screenshot ;-)  I tried EPS and
didn't get very good results - will play around wmf tonight and see what I can
find.  Thanx again.

Cheers,
Lyle

Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Le mer, jun 06, 2001, à 07:49:30 +0000, Lyle Bateman a écrit:
> > How can I export a dia file so that it is editable by Visio or CorelDraw
> > (ie, a simple bitmap export isn't good enough here)?  I have tried dfx
> > and neither Visio nor Corel seem to be able to read the file, though
> > they recognize the format as an Autocad file (is this dfx the same as
> > the Autocad dfx?).  I'm also thinking about XML, but can't seem to find
> > a way to open that in Corel or Visio either.  Anyway, if anyone has any
> > suggestions, I'm all ears.
>
> You might have some luck with the SVG filters, perhaps also with the WMF
> and/or EPS exports.
>
> Dia's DXF support is quite limited, and the subset of DXF it supports might
> not match the subset of DXF supported by the packages you've mentioned.
>
> Currently, there's no "intelligent" file format understood both by Visio and
> dia: if you ever find a format understood by both, you'll have only a bunch
> of stupid shapes, not "intelligent" objects. The result is that the small
> interoperability, if any, is probably not very useful...
>
> (dia's native file format is gzipped XML; it's quite easy to parse. However,
> I'm afraid XML is not the silver bullet described in the trade press, and
> dia's file being XML won't help loading them into Visio much, unless you're
> ready to write a dia-to-Visio filter in a scripting language able to drive
> Visio, if such a thing exists).
>
>         -- Cyrille
>
> --
> Grumpf.
>
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