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Subject:    Re: Visio Stencils - any chance to convert to KOffice/Kivio?
From:       Peter Simonsson <psn () linux ! se>
Date:       2003-04-05 14:58:51
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lördagen den 5 april 2003 16.20 skrev Vadim Plessky:
> On Saturday 05 April 2003 16:34, Peter Simonsson wrote:
> |  lördagen den 5 april 2003 13.17 skrev Vadim Plessky:
> |  > I have found on company Intranet (where I work at daily time) a HUGE
> |  > stencil set (30MB in size zipped!!) which covers almost all kinds of
> |  > modern computers, switches, servers, SAN/NAS systems, etc.
> |  > I am going to check next week wether some of those stencils are
> |  > redistributable.
> |  > Now I am wondering:  is there a way to convert Visio stencils to
> |  > Kivio, or to Karbon14, or to SVG format?
> |  > I think users would benefit greatly if we get some nice set of
> |  > stencils
> |  >
> |  > :-)
> |  >
> |  > Even if set of those stencils is not redistributable, it would be much
> |  > more easy for mew to create independent stencil stes which would cover
> |  > needs of IT Architects / System Administrators.
> |  >
> |  > BTW: anyone on the list interested in such stencils, and wish to help
> |  > with developement?
> |
> |  Hi!
> |  Kivio can use stencils in sml (kivio's own) and dia format. Kivio's sml
> | format is explained in stencil-format.kwd. To create stencils in sml
> | format you'll have to write them by hand (no editor avialable).
>
> So, nothing changed from KOffice 1.1 and 1.2 releases?
> Such a pity!..
>
> Anyway, it can be good idea (in such case) to forget about Kivio stencil
> format and adopt some derivative from SVG.
> Dirk has KPainter prototype in kdenonbeta, so there is a flexible renderer
> and you need just add some logic around SVG (encapsulate SVG into "stencil
> primitive", which aslo has some extra metadata).
> It can  be also that some Karbon14 code can be reused here.
>
Well I'm intending to port parts of kivio to use karbon but I have only so 
much time and it will have to wait anyway as there is no time to implement it 
before 1.3.

> BTW: does OpenOffice/StarOffice has flowcharting module?
> In case such beast exist: can it import Visio stencils and save them in
> some XML-based format?
No specific flowcharting app but oodraw have some support but I don't think it 
handles visio stencils though.
-- 
LLaP
Peter Simonsson

Kivio (KOffice Flowcharting Application) - http://www.koffice.org/
Kexi - http://www.koffice.org/kexi/
KLCC (KDE LineControl Client) - http://linecontrol.sourceforge.net/

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