Ubu - need a visio reader

Owen Townend owen.townend at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 21:44:59 UTC 2008


On 3/5/08, jack <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 09:54 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> > On 03/03/2008 07:25 PM, Owen Townend wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hey,
> > >   If you can't open it feel free to send it to me, same deal - off
> list and
> > > confidential, but I have a more recent version available (Visio 2003)
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Owen.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Your's most likely would have worked... mine didn't (too old). So I
> > booted to windows, downloaded the visio 2003 viewer - brought up the
> > file in IE (ugh!) and printed to a pdf & sent to Jack. Jack reported
> > back that that did the trick.
> >
> >
>
> Both efforts worked very well! The images were enough to be able to get
> eyes on these drawings. The import (thanks Owen!) were fine, but dia was
> not able to do anything more than make a mangled image with them. I'm
> guessing that dia still has a bit of work left to make the claim that it
> truly works. I'll try OOo on them as well, just to see if OO does
> something different.
>
>
> Jack
>
>
>
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Hey,
  No worries, glad I could help.
  Perhaps there's a better file type to export to that may help...
  Otherwise you may have luck using the Visio2003 Viewer in wine.

cheers,
Owen.
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