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Alternative to Microsoft Visio

  • 09-08-2006 5:25pm
    #1
    sicruise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    Has anyone tried and tested an open source alternative to Microsoft Visio?

    I need the application to be able to read .vsd files... not just be a program with similar functionality.

    Cheers,

    Si


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  • #2
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    You might be out of luck: http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html#VisioFiles

    :(


  • #3
    Gilby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Gilby


    afraid not mate.

    been looking myself for ages, but haven't found anything that comes close to a visio replacement. fair play to an irish company for making such an amazing application - even if they sold out to the enemy (M$)...

    I'm just getting by with using Gentoo as my base os, with an XP VMWare install - with MS Visio running there. Does the job nicely in fairness.

    If you do happen to stumble across something - let us know too!

    Cheers,
    Gilby from Puck


  • #4
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    I don't use Visio (dot ftw) but agreed: VMware is da bomb for those pesky Windoze applications you can't shake off. OziExplorer being my primary example.


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