[NTLUG:Discuss] Converting Visio and "Arts & Letters" files

[Ted Gould]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 22:49 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I have created several drawings with both of these programs on Windoze
> and have kept that OS around mainly for these and one other program.
> I'm now making another effort to fully convert to Linux.  I want these
> files to be able to transfer as vector graphics rather than bitmaps.
> 
> Both programs will export to EPS although I've seen comments that Visio
> (particularly the older versions) does a terrible job of conversion.

I'd say output your drawings to PDF.  You can use PDF Creator on
Windows:  (yes, the website sucks, but the program has worked well for
me)

  http://pdfcreator.sf.net

And then open the PDFs in many things, I use Inkscape.  (note: you'll
need 0.46 or newer for PDF support)

  http://www.inkscape.org

I've also run some versions of Visio on Wine.  Depending on which
version you have it may work well for you.

		--Ted