On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:19:43AM -0700, Brian Pomerantz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:05:36AM -0700, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:49:19AM -0700, Dan Cohn wrote:
> > >
> > > Y'all might have some interest in this.. :|
> >
> > It just makes Dia that much more important, as the only significant
> > competition to the Evil Empire in this space.
> >
>
> Yeah, that's the only reason I joined the mailing list. I plan on
> looking over the source pretty soon to help with adding new features.
> It looks like the drawing engine is pretty far along. I also like the
> dlopen() of new plug-ins as well. It makes for a really easy to
> extend product. Has anyone looked at adding the ability to read in
> Visio shape and drawing files? I think they are pretty well
> published.
Maybe obsolete soon too. There are two competing XML drawing DTDs
intended to be a vector graphics standard for the 'net (just like
PNG and JPG for raster graphics). VML is being advanced by MS
so I would assume that they would want the Visio storage format to be
VML. Presumably it's extensible enough to serve as both a generic
graphics standard and the Visio native format. I'm guessing but that's
the sort of thing XML is supposed to enable.
Adobe is pushing PGML as an alternative. See
http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/98/06/22
I think DIA ought to adopt one or the other if it makes sense technically.
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