omnigraffle pro opening up visio document problem

#OMNIGRAFFLE PRO OPENING UP VISIO DOCUMENT PROBLEM FOR MAC#
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Versions prior to OmniGraffle for Mac 7.16 and OmniGraffle for iOS 3.14 will not be able to read this format. This combines most of the benefits of the pre-existing formats in a way that is compatible with file syncing services like Dropbox. This is a zipped version of the pre-existing file package format which has significant performance advantages over the old single file format that encoded images as XML data. This release introduces a new file type that avoids compatibility issues with certain sync platforms, such as Dropbox, while maintaining great performance.įile Formats - A new default single file format has been added. I also wouldn't blindly upload any stencils you create to Graffletopia without running by them or the original stencil distributor, as that would almost certainly put you and Graffletopia both in hot legal water.OmniGraffle 7.16 improves reliability when OmniGraffle documents are synced with third party providers. In either case, I'll add screenshots soon enough.

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If I find an easier way to get quality stencils from Visio into Omni, I will update the page. Omnigraffle claims to be able to open PDFs, but I haven't had good luck with that in the Real World.

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Inkscape does a great job of opening and editing PDF documents, but doesn't seem to save in any vector format that can be loaded by Omnigraffle (mainly saves in SVG variants). I've found that you can use OpenOffice or NeoOffice to open the emf/wmf files, and then follow the same steps to import the objects, but it seems the NeoOffice rasterizes the files, so while it does work, you lose some detail. There should be simpler ways to do this, but I haven't found any that produce results of the same quality with as few steps. In Omnigraffle 4, this is done with the Stencils menu instead.

This will open up a canvas that you can copy your new object into after whatever tweaking you want to do. Now, in Omnigraffle, click the gear icon in the Stencils panel and select 'new stencil'. Dragging them from one app to the other didn't seem to work exactly as I would have expected.

When you're ready, cut and paste your object from Illustrator into Omnigraffle using CMD-C and CMD-V. You may have to ungroup/regroup your object and sub-objects. Open the saved file in Illustrator on the Mac. This would obviously be the preferred way to move files around, assuming it works. Oddly I've found that CS3 doesn't like the.

#OMNIGRAFFLE PRO OPENING UP VISIO DOCUMENT PROBLEM WINDOWS#

wmf (enhanced metafile or windows metafile). I've found that if I really load this up, it doesn't work so well. Go into Visio, create a document and populate it with some of the objects you want to convert. To import those objects which don't convert properly, I've started using the following method, which isn't perfect, but the objects do come across, and you don't have to rasterize them. What makes Visio and Omnigraffle (and PDFs, and Illustrator) work so well is that your objects are vector images and are scalable in all directions while maintaining quality. This will get you your objects, but they'll be raster images and you will lose both detail and the ability to scale them. Many people have been recommending blowing the objects way up in Visio and using a screenshot, or exporting the document from Visio as a PNG or some such. The problem is that for a huge percentage of stencil sets, you get an error that you can't load the EMF data and get a grey rectangle or munged object. I have a lot of Visio stencils, some of which DO work in Omnigraffle using their preferred import method: Make a new drawing in Visio, drop your objects on there, save it as an xml drawing, and import that into OmniGraffle.

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Graffletopia does a great job, but I find myself using the Apple or Dell (mixed with the Sun, Netapp, etc) stencils that aren't really representative of my hardware, and I feel that it just doesn't seem that professional when I hand my boss a network or rack diagram that has all this disparate hardware that doesn't match anything we actually own. The thing that has held me back with OmniGraffle is the lack of stencils. Now only if the formats were open all the way around. Last year I bought OmniGraffle 4 Pro, I really, really like that app, and it makes using Visio seem like self torture. Someday, we'll live in The Future, I swear it.

Omnigraffle pro opening up visio document problem