ms-visio *.vsd

hi,


how can i open  *.vsd  [ms-visio]

the visio-viewer exist only for win*
en
http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8fad9237-c0a7-4b80-a...
de
http://office.microsoft.com/germany/downloads/2002/vViewer.aspx


i tried it with
  dia = no
  kivio = no
  gimp = no
  xfig = no

:-(


-- 
shrek-m

[Laur Ivan]

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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 17:04, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>  Laur Ivan wrote:
>  >Hi,
>  >
>  >you may try wine with the exe from microsoft. Or crossover from
>  > codeweavers. I think they support it.
>
>  thanks ivan.
>
>  the last time (2 years ago) i was trying wine with others progs than
>  dos-progs i had no luck.
>  but i wasn´t looking deep enough in  /etc/wine* ~/.wine/*
>
>  i have never tried crossover.
>
>  if there is absolutely no possibility to open it under linux :-(
>  then i will take vmware.
>  
ouch! that's quite a big undertaking just to view visio files. crossover 
office says it can view visio alright. in the worst case, you can get 
crossover office, install internet explorer and the visio viewer. if it's a 
"one off" you can have a go at their "trial" version.

Cheers,

Laur
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Laur Ivan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> you may try wine with the exe from microsoft. Or crossover from codeweavers. I 
> think they support it.
>   
>  
thanks ivan.

the last time (2 years ago) i was trying wine with others progs than 
dos-progs i had no luck.
but i wasn´t looking deep enough in  /etc/wine* ~/.wine/*

i have never tried crossover.

if there is absolutely no possibility to open it under linux :-(
then i will take vmware.




$ vi /path/to/*.vsd
[...]
Content-Disposition: Attachment; filename="=?ISO-8859-1?b?[...snip...]?="^M
Content-Type: application/vnd.visio;^M
[...]
òÿÿÿ~C^@ÿöòÿóûð^G^Aøñ^@~I~@êñ^V^D~@^V^@ 
^@^Y^@~@ÿ^@ÀÀÀ^@æææÿ^@ÍÍÍ^@³³³ï^@~Z~Z~Z!^@~@^@fÿff^@MMM^@3ÿ33^@^Z^Z^Z^@ï^?ïï^@úúú^@^E$ëð^XÜÿ^D
[...]


> On Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:02, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>   
>
> >hi,
> >
> >
> >how can i open  *.vsd  [ms-visio]
> >
> >the visio-viewer exist only for win*
> >en
> >http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8fad9237-c0a7-4b80-a5d
> >f-46ce54dad2df&DisplayLang=en de
> >http://office.microsoft.com/germany/downloads/2002/vViewer.aspx
> >
> >
> >i tried it with
> >  dia = no
> >  kivio = no
> >  gimp = no
> >  xfig = no
> >
> >:-(
> >    
> > 
-- 
shrek-m

[Florin Andrei]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:38, Joe wrote:
>  Indeed - I remember reading, back when visio was a separate company
> that 
>  they were about to go cross platform - at that point microsoft 
>  frantically snapped them up to prevent that threat to their monpoly plans... 
Whoever creates a native viewer/editor for Visio files on *nix - i'll
personally build a shrine for him/her.

>  Sad that such goings on never raised an eyebrow at the antitrust
> department. 
They probably did, but eyebrows have a complicated motion equation,
especially when the variables involved have large values or grow
exponentially.

Of course, i was thinking from a computer graphics perspective. :-)

-- 
Florin Andrei

"Never send a human to do a machine's job." - Agent Smith

Laur Ivan wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 August 2003 17:04, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>   
>
> >Laur Ivan wrote:
> >    
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>you may try wine with the exe from microsoft. Or crossover from
> >>codeweavers. I think they support it.
> >>      
> >>
> >thanks ivan.
> >
> >the last time (2 years ago) i was trying wine with others progs than
> >dos-progs i had no luck.
> >but i wasn´t looking deep enough in  /etc/wine* ~/.wine/*
> >
> >i have never tried crossover.
> >
> >if there is absolutely no possibility to open it under linux :-(
> >then i will take vmware.
> >
> >    
> >
> ouch! that's quite a big undertaking just to view visio files. crossover 
> office says it can view visio alright. in the worst case, you can get 
> crossover office, install internet explorer and the visio viewer. if it's a 
> "one off" you can have a go at their "trial" version.
>  
hi laur,

after three attempts to explain the win-user that i have no visio, 
visio-viewer, ms-windows, internet-explorer, ... and that it might be 
possible to save the file as *.gif, *.jpg, ...
i gave up.

the win-user was not able to save his visio-file as *.jpg
and attach to his email.

i can not wait until tomorrow :-(

(search and find the  moc  with  visio-enterprise)

wine:
i have tried a newer wine, no succes with the visio-installation

crossover-trial:
after filling the necessary form
i got no email with the download-url just now

vmware:
no problems with the visio-installation
"open" *.vsd, "save as"  *.jpg
no problems with nautilus, netscape, gimp, ...

with .dxf and dia i had no luck :-(

other-(not_tested)supported-formats:
.ps .eps .png .pxt .pcx .gif .tif .bmp .ai .dwg .dxf .dgn .vml ...



is there really no prog available for *.vsd ?


-- 
shrek-m

[joe]

Indeed - I remember reading, back when visio was a separate company that 
they were about to go cross platform - at that point microsoft 
frantically snapped them up to prevent that threat to their monpoly plans...

Sad that such goings on never raised an eyebrow at the antitrust department.

Joe

shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:

>  hi,
>
>
>  how can i open  *.vsd  [ms-visio]
>
>  the visio-viewer exist only for win*
>  en
>
> http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8fad9237-c0a7-4b80-a...
>
>
>  de
>  http://office.microsoft.com/germany/downloads/2002/vViewer.aspx
>
>
>  i tried it with
>   dia = no
>   kivio = no
>   gimp = no
>   xfig = no
>
>  :-(
>
>

[Laur Ivan]

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Hi,

you may try wine with the exe from microsoft. Or crossover from codeweavers. I 
think they support it.

Cheers,

L

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:02, shrek-m(a)gmx.de wrote:
>  hi,
>
>
>  how can i open  *.vsd  [ms-visio]
>
>  the visio-viewer exist only for win*
>  en
>  http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8fad9237-c0a7-4b80-a5d
> f-46ce54dad2df&DisplayLang=en de
>  http://office.microsoft.com/germany/downloads/2002/vViewer.aspx
>
>
>  i tried it with
>    dia = no
>    kivio = no
>    gimp = no
>    xfig = no
>
> >  :-( 
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