Reading a visio file on OS X: Can it be done?

September 6, 2004 2:50 PM

Reading a visio file on OS X: Can it be done? [mi]

I've got a .vsd file that I'd like to read on my mac. Writing is not necessary, but would be nice. I'd like to avoid getting a PC or running virtual PC.

posted by b1tr0t to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Have you tried Omnigraffle?
posted by mathowie at 2:53 PM on September 6, 2004

Omnigraffle Pro v3 only supports VDX files; ConceptDraw V permits importing of VSX.
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:01 PM on September 6, 2004

If you ever need it, that is.
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:02 PM on September 6, 2004

Probably not, it seems to be a very proprietary format.

This guy's trying to decode it, though.
posted by cmonkey at 3:11 PM on September 6, 2004

My older version of OmniGraffle doesn't seem to speak visio at all. The newer version only claims to understand Visio XML files. ConceptDraw V looks very cool but only supports Visio XML files as well.
posted by b1tr0t at 3:17 PM on September 6, 2004

Along these lines, is it possible to read a Microsoft Access snapshot (.snp) file on OS X?
posted by samuelad at 6:30 PM on September 6, 2004

ConceptDraw has a web-based tool for converting Visio files to their format. Now, it requires sending your info to a third party, so I don't know how kosher that is with you, but there ya go.
posted by mkultra at 1:39 PM on September 7, 2004