Comments on: Visio stencils & Linux http://blog.laimbock.com/2007/08/22/visio-stencils-linux/ Observations in a fast changing World Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:03:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: frob http://blog.laimbock.com/2007/08/22/visio-stencils-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 frob Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:55:52 +0000 http://blog.laimbock.com/2007/08/22/visio-stencils-linux/#comment-1089 Hej Patrick! 1. Many Visio stencils are not so nice internally -- I checked a lot of them to find out that the majority of (ok, network) equipment vendors outsource making VSSes to some companies and take back a bunch of WMFs/EMFs wrapped into VSS file. 2. So far EMF is not quite good supported on Linux, and to be more special Dia doesn't support it (or even WMF import). At the moment vsdump can extract WMFs/EMFs (and .ico) from such cheap stencils. So one could be able to convert them into Dia/Kivio sheets of objects with help from some WMF/EMF convertor. 3. I'm close to a public release of my WMF/EMF viewer with ability to save as SVG. Cheers, Valek Hej Patrick!

1. Many Visio stencils are not so nice internally — I checked a lot of them to find out that the majority of (ok, network) equipment vendors outsource making VSSes to some companies and take back a bunch of WMFs/EMFs wrapped into VSS file.

2. So far EMF is not quite good supported on Linux, and to be more special Dia doesn’t support it (or even WMF import).
At the moment vsdump can extract WMFs/EMFs (and .ico) from such cheap stencils. So one could be able to convert them into Dia/Kivio sheets of objects with help from some WMF/EMF convertor.

3. I’m close to a public release of my WMF/EMF viewer with ability to save as SVG.

Cheers,
Valek

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