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Govtcheez
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Visio, but not
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April 18, 2005, 09:55:28 AM »
Does anyone know of any free utilities out there that can open, edit, and save Visio files?
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Mike
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April 18, 2005, 10:09:37 AM »
Have you looked at openoffice to see if they have a program?
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Govtcheez
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April 18, 2005, 10:45:36 AM »
It doesn't sound like it. Everywhere I've looked said vsd's would be a nightmare to reverse engineer. I guess it's a totally closed file structure.
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Mike
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April 18, 2005, 10:49:47 AM »
Well I have openoffice draw and visio so tomorrow I'll try to see if it works or not.
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Govtcheez
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April 18, 2005, 10:59:11 AM »
I did find a program that can save as or export as a vsd file, but it costs a lot of money.
Still, that makes me think there may be some way around this.
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l33t-5h1t
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April 18, 2005, 12:42:31 PM »
there is....depends on if this needs to be legit or not
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Govtcheez
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April 18, 2005, 12:58:50 PM »
Well, now I've got Visio installed, so this isn't really a problem. I'm curious, though - what alternatives are there (besides just pirating Visio)
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l33t-5h1t
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April 18, 2005, 01:05:22 PM »
I only know of free viewers.
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hans
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April 18, 2005, 05:56:26 PM »
KDE has a similar program (Kivio) which after a quick look appears to have a multi platform version of it for relatively cheap. Doesn't do Visio imports but from the looks of it is otherwise a pretty good replacement.
There's DIA too but again that doesn't do Visio import/export. I haven't been very impressed with it the few times I've tried to use it.
OpenOffice has Draw that can do Visio type stuff but once again can't do Visio files.
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/07/2048221
I personally use OpenOffice since it's cross platform and I've gotten quite used to it.
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