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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Visio file format
From:       Kent Nguyen <kent () mslinux ! com>
Date:       2001-05-21 19:01:19
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Visio 2002 will have XML export capability which will be released later this 
month. 

I'm waiting for them to reply back for VBA API to do this XML export.

--kent

On Monday 21 May 2001 05:24 pm, Thomas Zander wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Please be very carefull about getting info from Microsoft, be very sure
> that the info is free to use, and can be used for non-MS software.
>
> If you receive information without the proper OK, I would like to advice
> you to not even look at the info. You can never prove that you did not use
> the info if you looked at it.  Don't underestimate the power of lawyers of
> a company that is openly attacking things like the GPL.
>
> OK, I am a bit paranoid, but I hope to be programming OSS for some more
> time ;)
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