Inkscape

Bug #1086504
Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1086504

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2012-12-05:

patch-libvisio-add-new-file-types-v2.diff Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain)

Attaching a revised version of the patch which reduces the additional supported Visio file formats to vdx, vsdx and vsdm (based on feedback on irc by Fridrich).

> The few VSS files I found via Google all open empty for me in Inkscape, but I didn't
> test and compare with the output generated by the command line tools yet (vss2xhtml).

VSS (Visio stencils) work with the command line tool (vss2xhtml), but the generated SVG output wrapped in the XHTML file needs to be post-processed to be used/useful in Inkscape [1]. Maybe support for Visio stencils can be implemented later on.

[1] tested e.g. with the Microsoft Visio Stencil version of the 'AWS Simple Icons', available for download here:
<http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/>
To be usable in Inkscape, I wrapped all the <svg:svg> containers into a parent <svg> node, and - to work around known issues in Inkscape with multiple stacked <svg> nodes - I finally converted 'svg:svg.*>' globally to 'svg:g>'.