Visio Symbols in your Application.

[Mike Doner]

I'm looking for a graphics library/method for drawing visio-symbols in your own DC/view. Anybody stumbled across something like this? Any help would be appreciated, Thx.

[dusty_dex]

Umm.. I thought Visio (and Office) could export documents as web pages. The exported .vdx files can be converted to SVG with freely available converters. VDXtoSVG sourceforge The older 2001 .vdx format schema is no longer available, but there's the 2010 schema and previous ones back to 2003, here: Visio 2010 XML Schema I don't know of any vector to bitmap converters, but it shouldn't be too difficult to do yourself.

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[Mike Doner]

Thanks for your reply. We're looking to take Visio-like symbols and draw them in our view. Would like the user to be able to select the .VSS file, select the symbol and draw it. You're method appears to be a one-off method. Are the VSS file formats published anywhere?

[dusty_dex]

I thought that the second schema link would help you with file format info. There's a C++ XML parser called rapidxml if you want to try that route. But you still need the visio xml schemas. Otherwise you'll have to download vdx converter source code Saxon (it's Java) also on sourceforge, vdx2svg has a dependency on it. I have the Pro version of Visio (2002) and it has the developer reference. I will take a look and see if there's more info for you in that. :)

Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine? A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.