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Support files in Visio LibreOffice: a success story

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One of the projects in the program Google Summer of Code 2011 was the implementation of support for files in Microsoft Visio LibreOffice. The work was done Scottish student Eylid McAdam (Eilidh McAdam) under the supervision of Attachmate / SUSE Frederick Shtrby (Fridrich Strba).

Due to their library written libvisio, using developments of the project re-lab, LibreOffice Draw now able to correctly open and display the many charts and diagrams in the format of VSD, publish documents on which Microsoft has never bothered.

More information about the implemented project, you can learn from an interview with the originators of the celebration, which is supplemented by some information of practical sense.


Issue LibreOffice 3.5, which will support the VSD «out of the box”, is scheduled for February 8, 2012. Utilities and vsd2odg vsd2xhtml available right now. The first part of the package writerperfect, which must be collected from the key – with-libvisio. The second part libvisio.

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