On 2011-08-03, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:

> I use to deal with a lot of Visio documents.  DIA may still be able to
> load these files, but I had problems installing my copy of Visio onto
> Win-Vista so I had to drop using it.  Now that Ubuntu is my default
> system, I needed to find alternatives to Visio as well.
>
> To be frank, MS Publisher files are not supported in most third-party
> software, and Visio files use to work with DIA diagram editor. It
> would be great if some really ambitious person would make a
> filter/extension that would give LibreOffice the ability to read those
> files and maybe even edit them.

Eilidh McAdam is doing some work on Visio import as a Google Summer of
Code project: 
http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=813

There is code in a git repository, at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/libvisio/

And for the ones who just want to see nice pictures, Fridrich Strba's
weblog has some posts with screenshots: 
http://fridrich.blogspot.com/

-- 
Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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