LibreOffice support for MS-Visio Stencils/Templates and Shapes ?

[Robinson Tryon]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In case it turns out to be a feature request:

See https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58425
Bug 58425 - LibreOffice Draw program doesn't correctly open .vss files (NEW)


> There's an article on
> blogs.msdn.com describing the (little) differences between a Visio Drawing
> (.vsd), Visio Stencil (.vss) and Visio Template (.vst).

One comment mentions 'vsd', but no mention of 'vst'. If they're
similar beasts, it might be helpful to add a brief comment to the bug
and include both extensions, so that others after you can easily find
this bug when searching bugzilla.

Danke,
--R

>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2006/05/30/608089.aspx

URL could be helpful

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I was wondering if LibreOffice (master) is currently supposed to have
>> support for Microsoft Visio Stencils (.vss) and Templates (.vst)  ?
>>
>> When I open one of these stencils in MS-Visio, I get a blank file onto
>> which I can drag and drop all of the shapes that are included in the
>> stencil. The shapes that are included in the file are displayed in a
>> separate window. [In essence, a stencil (.vss file) is a collection of
>> shapes associated with a particular Microsoft Office Visio template (.vst
>> file).]
>>
>> When I open up one of these in LibreOffice i do get the blank new file,
>> but not the window that has the shapes that are included.
>>
>> Is there supposed to be support for MS-Visio and Stencils/Templates and
>> Shapes in LibreOffice, or should I file an enhancement request for this  ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> - Maarten
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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