[instaviz-users] Visio testing

[Samuel Pinches]

Hi Glen and All,
The visio export works almost perfectly when opened in visio 2003!!

The node connections are all there, just two issues:

The text boxes need to be set to be just a fraction wider - otherwise  
shapes export perfectly. For an example of this, try exporting the  
"more help" file that comes with instaviz to visio, and see how the  
text wrap around fits better if the boxes are a fraction wider.

The arrow line curves appear identical to how they are in instaviz,  
but in some cases turn into straight lines. See my attachment for an  
example file  that produces inconsistent curved lines when exported.  
(I've also attached the converted .vdx so you can try in visio if you  
want)

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If there was a mac graphviz GUI to instavue I would buy it, as I don't  
think I need the full power of omnigraffle for their price, even the  
edu price. I only managed to get visio through my old school's deal  
with MSDN, and because I did an IT class I was eligible to get it for  
free.
Otherwise, Instavue is fantastic and instaviz is now much more useful  
for me. I just wish for an import function, but i'm sure that would be  
quite difficult to implement.

Cheers,
Sam





On 02/04/2009, at 3:49 PM, Glen Low wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for agreeing to test the new Visio support in Instaviz!
>
> Here's a new version of Instavue on the Mac that will export  
> "Microsoft Visio XML drawings" from your iPhone Instaviz backups.  
> Transfer the resulting VDX file to the PC, and try to open it in  
> Visio and play around with it a bit.
>
> <Instavue.zip>
>
>
> This version of Instavue has a few more bug fixes than the public  
> one, but we should be releasing everything fairly soon.
>
>
> Cheers, Glen Low
>
>
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