From koffice-devel  Mon May 21 16:17:46 2001
From: Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:17:46 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Visio file format
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At 01:17 AM 5/21/2001, you wrote:
>I want to import the stencils from Visio.  They have quite a few :)
>
>I've contacted Microsoft about giving me some documentations on the Visio
>file format.  Once they provide the necessary specification to the file
>format, importing can be quite easy.

You mean the actually said they would give it to you?  The other important 
piece is being able to import Visio documents themselves.

>If not, I'll take screenshots of all Visio stencils, and do some cut and
>paste.  Then write .sml file to the cutted image.  Microsoft "shared source"
>philosophy allows me to share this amongst my peers.  So no legal issue here.
>
>--kent
>
>On Sunday 20 May 2001 02:27 pm, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> > Are you trying to build an import filter?  We've looked and looked and
> > can't find a file format for Visio anywhere, it's just going to be a
> > painful process of reverse engineering the file as you add pieces to a
> > drawing.
> >
> > At 02:47 AM 5/20/2001, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I was using "file" and "khexedit" to pierce into Visio stencil file format
> > >(.vss).  I didn't get any where far.
> > >
> > >Has anyone here look at Visio stencils?  If so, have anyone written a
> > > design how Visio stencils work?
> > >
> > >This is what I'm interested in the Visio stencils:
> > >1)  Extraction of the image
> > >2)  Extraction of the connector points
> > >3)  Dimension of the shape
> > >4)  Extracting of the name of the image
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >--kent
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> > Regards,
> >
> > Shawn Gordon
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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
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