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Just read this question by Jason S and it reminded me that I'm interested in a means of importing / exporting between Visio & OOo Draw (primarily using OOo to edit Visio files).

Is this possible? If so, how?

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You could try converting your Visio 2003 files to SVG. That's the only way that might work. I know Visio can open SVGs and convert them into a Visio binary file.

Maybe the SVG files created by Visio can be read by OOo Draw.

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no go on opening the svg in OOo Draw - it kicks over to Writer. Gonna do some googling about getting svg into Draw – LRE Aug 25 '09 at 19:39
this looks promising: ipd.uka.de/~hauma/svg-import – LRE Aug 27 '09 at 1:26
well, that kinda worked. The text is a little screwed up but still, I think this a workable solution – LRE Aug 27 '09 at 1:34
hence your answer is accepted – LRE Aug 27 '09 at 1:37
Thank you, kind sir :). I'm only sorry this wasn't the most straightforward solution possible. – alex Aug 27 '09 at 4:53
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The old Visio binary format is not well-known, and as far as I can remember, there's no real documentation on it... No-one has yet reverse-engineered it...

The new Visio XML format (.VDX) is better known, and there are some VDX->SVG converters around. If you can get the files saved as Visio XML, then you might have more luck.

(Disclaimer: this was the state of play about a year ago, from my memory. Some things might have changed since then...)

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hmmmm - worth seeing what can be done with a vdx at least – LRE Aug 25 '09 at 2:05
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