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Technical & Scientific => Software => Topic started by: Govtcheez on April 18, 2005, 09:55:28 AM

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: Govtcheez on April 18, 2005, 09:55:28 AM

Does anyone know of any free utilities out there that can open, edit, and save Visio files?

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: Mike on April 18, 2005, 10:09:37 AM

Have you looked at openoffice to see if they have a program?

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: Govtcheez on 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.

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: Mike on 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.

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: Govtcheez on 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.

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: l33t-5h1t on April 18, 2005, 12:42:31 PM

there is....depends on if this needs to be legit or not ;)

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: Govtcheez on 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)

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: l33t-5h1t on April 18, 2005, 01:05:22 PM

I only know of free viewers.

Title: Visio, but not
Post by: hans on 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.