Re: dia file exchange

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Rick Jafrate wrote:

> Viso can export to DXF, VML, and others.  I know that VML is a
> microsoftism but it's an XML extension
> and is therefore in human readable form.  I haven't worked with VML but
> have read what it is 
> supposed to be.  Would it make more sense to focus on being compatible
> with a file format 
> other than VISO native ?  

It helps somewhat.  At least then if you have a working Visio and want to
change, you can translate them that way.  We already have DXF support, I'd
be curious to hear how well it imports Visio's DXF.  The problem with using
another format is that you lose a lot of information that way.  The diagram
will looks the same, but it'll be harder to work with.

-Lars

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