Re: [docbook-apps] Visio 2003 vector graphics in docbook

["Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>]

As Jirka Kosek mentioned, the arrow heads on my Visio SVGs don't show
up in other programs. As a result, I used Visio -> WMF -> EPS ->
PDF...

That is why I want to know what good alternatives there are in terms
of programs designed for flow charting that can export correct SVGs.
Inkscape, Graphviz, and Graph::Easy don't cut it.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Documents with flow charts about which I have inquired but received no answer:

http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs-UBL-2.0/UBL-2.0.xml

The first is the one about Page Sequence Master Interleave, a system
for changing the orientation of pages in the middle of a fo document.
It is linked from Bob Stayton's DocBook XSL book.

The second one was mentioned on this mailing list in the thread
"DocBook on the Web" by Mary McRae.

It really would be nice to find a workable alternative to Visio.

On 1/28/07, Sebastian Fey <sebastian.fey@web.de> wrote:
> Jirka Kosek schrieb:
> > Sebastian Fey wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Best would be support for MS SVGExtensions, or maybe a way to make visio
> >> export without these extensions...
> >>
> >
> > Those SVG extensions are useful only for round-tripping.
> it seems to have some layout functionality.
> removing everything in SVGExtensions namespace from the svg-document
> results in corrupt layout.
>
> > SVG file from
> > Visio will render correctly in compliant SVG renderer.
> Very simple SVG are displayed by firefox (corruptly) and Altsoft xml2pdf
> renders the SVG into a pdf but without any text.
> More complex Visio diagrams: firefox quits with syntax error, xml2pdf
> says the svg is corrupt.
> (very simple svg = just a circle with "hello world" in it, attached to
> this message)
> XEP doesnt render any visio-svg, and just says:
>
> (sequence [master-reference body]
>   (flow [1][2]
>     [error] no space for an element, trying to recover
>     [2]
>     [error] no space for an element, trying to recover
>     [2])
>
> > There is only one
> > problem with markers -- Visio contains small bug which makes markers
> > disappear for example in XEP.
> sounds good, hopefully itll work for me soon too .
> > This should be fixed in Visio 2007 (I
> > hadn't tested it) as MS accepted my bug report (well, it took almost
> > year and ten emails which were not very nice though ;-).
> >
> >
> thx for your help!
>
> greetings,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
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