Omega Owners Forum

Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: I_want_an_Omega on 12 July 2013, 14:21:15

Title: Visio file format
Post by: I_want_an_Omega on 12 July 2013, 14:21:15
I've been sent a Visio file. Any ideas on opening it without buying Visio?

Thanks
Title: Re: Visio file format
Post by: Jimbob on 12 July 2013, 15:17:42
There is a free Visio viewer from Microsoft
Title: Re: Visio file format
Post by: I_want_an_Omega on 12 July 2013, 15:20:50
There is a free Visio viewer from Microsoft

Yes, I'm aware of that thanks - but was wondering if there is another (preferably free) package that I can use to edit a file.

Otherwise I'm faced with the prospect of creating what I want in Word using the flowchart symbols ......
Title: Re: Visio file format
Post by: Rog on 12 July 2013, 15:26:39
I use Libre Office routinely, and just wondered. Did some searches and found this

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/

Libre Office is completely free, and really pretty good



Title: Re: Visio file format
Post by: I_want_an_Omega on 12 July 2013, 16:53:13
Thanks - much appreciated  :y
Title: Re: Visio file format
Post by: cnj on 12 July 2013, 21:54:16
libre office is a version of the old open office that was designed and built by sun micro systems, who I believe where making computers when bill gates and steve jobs where in diapers. still think its better than ms office !
Title: Re: Visio file format
Post by: tigers_gonads on 13 July 2013, 12:59:26
Pretty sure Microsoft Paint will open anything if you just need a look but be prepared to reduce the image to get it on the screen
Title: Re: Visio file format
Post by: TheBoy on 13 July 2013, 13:40:23
libre office is a version of the old open office that was designed and built by sun micro systems, who I believe where making computers when bill gates and steve jobs where in diapers. still think its better than ms office !
Not quite. Actually, not even that close. Sun Microsystems bought StarOffice during the dotcom boom (rumoured to be because it was cheaper than kitting out their staff with MS Office - ironically, a hardware and OS company were using somebody else's hardware, OS and applications ::)), and opensourced part of it (which became OpenOffice) which was one of their development strategies at the time, like OpenSolaris.

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, Oracle tried to step back from the opensource model, as they follow a strictly proprietry model, so a fork, LibreOffice, was made.


As to your history lesson, miles off. Both Bill Gate's (and Paul Allen's) Microsoft and Steve Job's (and Steve Wozniak's and a 3rd member I can never remember) Apple Computer were formed in the mid 1970s. Sun Microsystems didn't start until the early 1980s. So it was Scott McNealy who was in short trousers when MS and Apple were formed ;)